Beverley Cooper Flynn Betrays her Electorate Again

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Friday March 14, 2008 10:02

by C Murray

North-Wst Cancer Services have been cut and will be Phased out

The Breast cancer unit at Mayo General Hospital is to be phased out under the HSE
policy of Professor Brendan Drumm, many who travelled to the Breast cancer protest
in buses and stood in the cold to highlight lack of services to the North-West will be heavily
disappointed in the decision for the scheduled phase-out. Mostly they will be disappointed
in the TD whom they elected who upholds the decision of the 'medical men' who know
best. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85161
Ms Flynn was at that protest, she most purposefully strode across the road to listen
to the women speak and then she turned her back on them to support Mary Harney
and the HSE.

Greenink.com image of Flynn

Two evenings ago, Ms Cooper-Flynn was interviewed outside Dail Eireann in her confirmation
type pink suit and sensible shoes saying that she had no option but to recommend the
'Centres of Excellence' because it as considered best practice to accept the words of the
medical men and expert groups.

In practice this means that like Finian Mc Grath and John Gormley this TD will
continue to stand over the privatisation of a public health service led by a woman TD
whom has done nothing for the women of Ireland but to increase the work-load, increase
anxiety and state very clearly to us that what matters to FF/PD/Green is profit, budget,
payroll and maybe in the last analysis -Patient care.

Mc Grath agreed to support FF in a non-confidence motion put down by Labour
in exchange for movement on a dedicated CF unit, whilst knowing that FF policy
is to amalgamate hospitals in Crumlin and Tallaght to a crowded inaccessible site
on the Mater Grounds, thus depriving a large working class area of excellence of
care and CF facilities. Gormley stood over health policy whilst knowing that his
constituency might lose St Lukes. Cooper-Flynn supports a policy of Centres
of Excellence' that deprive the whole North-West from Sligo to Donegal of breast-cancer
services.

What it means , in essence is that clientelist based politicians are greedily
blindspotted by their constituency concerns and do not see the long-term effect of
a national Health policy that is anti-equality.

OECD report on Irish health care:- on the Newswire
PD analysis;- http://www.indymedia.ie/article/4946

Ms Flynn's confirmation suit seems to come out of a similar warehouse concern
that dresses the other Mary's Hanafin, Coughlan) and FF hanger's -on such as
Ms Larkin.