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Reasons to Vote for Fianna Fail

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    #62
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    InFront wrote:
    Fianna Fail says we have enough hospital beds, Fine Gael will create 2,300 of them

    actually, more capital spending is really the last thing the Health service needs. what needs to improved on is the efficiency, management, waiting lists etc. the day to day crap. more beds should only be really considered in the long run whe/if we can increase efficiency levels. otherwise those beds would end up hogging even more resources than necessary.

    most of the beds are taken up because of the excessive waiting lists anyway from what i can make. adding more would serve as nothing but a distraction really.

    so Fianna Faíl win that one i guess imo. *shudder*


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    #63
    InFront
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,698 ✭✭✭InFront


    Well you can't sum FG Health policy up in one sentence, and I wasn't attempting to, I was just pointing out a policy contrast. In fact, FG are planning on creating these extra hospital beds, but there is more to the policy than just that. For example, Fine Gael have also carefully planned and financed 1,500 Convalescence beds for removing those people from hospital who currently have nowhere else to go, or to be blunt about it: getting rid of bed blockers and thereby improving efficiency.

    The 2,300 acute beds are gravely needed, even with improved efficiency and freeing up extra beds. We need more beds, more specialist units, hard working staff, more consultants - but properly trained consultants. We need clean hospitals. The Fine Gael policy documents outline clearly how this will be achieved - or on EK's head be it:)

    Now is the opportunity to completely overhaul the health service while the economy is ticking, to send in the wrecking ball and the blocklayers while we can afford it, not to send in Paddy the Plasterer, so to speak.

    Who do you trust?


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    #64
    gurramok
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    delta_bravo wrote:
    Im almost guaranteed to get slated for this but I suppose a reason for voting would be that the unemployment rate has been so low for most of their tenure.

    Great soundbite...one problem though...most jobs in the last few years have been created in the public service/construction or are low-paid jobs.

    66% of the workforce earns below 34k per yr, the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer.

    Only millionaires have gotten away with paying ZERO tax under FF, surprise surprise, suppose this policy has helped with Gerry Beades the construction magnate on their national executive.

    That said, i hope FF get back in to sort out the economic mess they created instead of joe public blaming the present opposition if they get in.

    That mess?...an economy based on the cheap credit fuelled construction boom going bust.


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