The 200k man would hardly move his entire family to a different country because he was getting 1700 pw into his hand rather than 1900pw would he?
Going to A&E for bloods and prescriptions is bollocks. There should be GP out of service where you can drop into. Some sort of rota like the pharmacys run at christmas. Its not acceptable in a first world country that every small issue requires a visit to A&E. Its in the name accident and emergancy.
Agreed its not acceptable at all. There should be capacity to cather for a surge when people are more sick. Covid was 2 years ago and all the talk was increasing said capacity as top priority, the main point of lockdown was to build this capacity. We are no where near that now even with the promises then in a major crisis.
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He might if he gets 2500 pw in that other country
A huge problem at the minute is nurses are leaving in their droves for Oz.
I know one ward in Limerick who were losing 9 nurses over Xmas (all heading for Oz this week).
Thats unsustainable. There are no incentives for anyone to stay around.
Fucking split season
There are parallels alright in terms of the law of unintended consequences.
Housing crisis - Young people emigrate - no nurses - Health crisis.
Seriously though, thereās going to have to be incentives for young people to stay at home. You have a better chance of being treated by an Irish nurse in London or Sydney than in Limerick or Cork.
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Nurses and teachers in their droves. Not worth living in ireland anymore if your under 30.
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Saying itās only x amount extra doesnāt look at the context. His marginal tax rate is already, what, 52% all in, sf/ira throw on another 5% to get at the ābig earnersā, youāre then close 60% marginal tax rate. Sure, fudge that, why wouldnāt you go somewhere else or just drastically reduce your hours. Thereās a tipping point to it.
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Its been a mass exodus of a generation in the last 12 months. I doubt it was this bad in 2009/10.
If you have a ward of 30 nurses and 9 of them leave for Oz in space of a few weeks well that can only end badly for the patients.
Nobody seems to care though. Iāve been in UHL far too much for my liking these past few months and its a total disaster zone. It was flagged up pre-Xmas though that January would be like the apocalypse.
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Sinn Fein will fix it with more taxes, more immigration and more houses.
Theyāll close the borders Cuba style.
2010 there was no jobs much more simple. Now its the country has fucked over this generation so much its hopeless to stay in ireland. Shit falls down. Look who created this situation and their age.
There were plenty of nurses who came home at the start of covid to wear the green jersey and git fucked over in doing so too.
Older teachers fucked over new entries in 2010. Now they stand next to them with their unions saying they want pay parity yet they voted for it to protect themselves. Add in we have a teacher shortage yet young teachers cant get a permanent job for years, bouncing between schools for a few years. No security unless they are lucky. Yet we are pumping out teaching graduates to go abroad.
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Boomers like @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy , @TheUlteriorMotive are also largely to blame. Reaped the benefits of obtaining cheap housing pre celtic tiger, ride the neo liberal global economic boom, now have houses,pensions and investments worth a fortune and can always import whatever they need (cheap labour for healthcare etc) and f-off to any younguns who want the sameā¦ go emigrate to ozmerica.
(Not to mention travelling the globe on cheap airfares when they were in their prime but now lobbying for eliminating cheap energy which facilitated same)
They had it all and fuck everyone else.
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Had to use the south doc new years day and i mist say it was surprisingly efficient. Called around 11am for myself and the kiddo and by 1pm theyād sent the script down to the pharmacy which was there waiting for me.
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Was that the actual response?
I used Caredoc over Xmas for an issue & besides the 35mins on hold I was in, seen & home from pharmacy with the prescription in 2 1/2 hrs.
While I had to drive a small distance as opposed to a later booking time locally it was a decent service imo.
Anytime weāve used the service with sick kids itās been okay bar trying to get through to them.
Itās no coincidence Celtic Tiger roared as my generation entered the workplace.
We worked hard so lads like @Thomas_Brady could stay in college for a decade and young lads now know how to treat plantar fasciitis
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And get a bed three days later
There will be no nurses left for the poor farmers to marry.
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There was some bird on Drivetime earlier talking about her long Covid. She sounded delighted with herself. She goes in to see Doctor Jack Lambert.