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Mary Harney should resign
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Jump To Comment: 1 2I was shocked to see that there is 624 healthty people holding on to beds in our various hospitals despite them being declared fit to return home.
These people of all ages and backgrounds choose to stay in a public ward rather than return to an empty home or care centre.
Indeed one poor senior citizen had her home taken from her by a greedy family member while she was in Hospital, while I have being informed by some other old folk that their families refuse to care for them and instead dump their aged parents on the mercy of the state.
The above is bad enough but while these beds are being hogged by fit people, sick people are queing up outside and being denied treatment due to social greed rather than a caring Minister who actualy shares her caring for an aged infirm Mother with the rest of her family.
Either the previous comment is a brilliant parody or it is yet another example of how, whenever they open their mouths to speak, Progressive Democrats are incapable of anything other than mean-spiritedness and contempt. Now, for instance, it is the fault of elderly people and/or their families if they are unable to go home. Mr Kennedy would like to persuade everybody that this is down to callous family members. The fact is that carers of elderly people often have jobs and children to see to as well. They need vital community supports for their elderly parents if living at home is to be possible. In my experience, delays in setting up those supports by social workers (under-resourced too) and others is most often what keeps an elderly person in hospital longer than is deemed medically necessary. And if Mary Harney is so familiar with the problems, you'd think she'd show at least some empathy with people coping with these situations, now she is Minister for Health. Or does she expect other people to give up work completely for a life of poverty and caring? Mary Harney will never have to face that choice as thousands of people in Ireland have had to. Fact is, PDs are full of contempt for ordinary people and the post above is a first class example of it.