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Query Mary Harneys postion as minister

popey21 · 2009-04-27 08:50:15

Does anyone know how Mary Harney can hold a ministrial seat following the dissolution of the pd party. She was elected as a PD and therefore had her position due to shareing of power with FF but she has not been duly elected as an independent td by the people and yet she holds one of the highest and most influnential…

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#32 29-04-2009 5:12pm
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She can't count... (see below)
The obvious reason she's still insitu is that neither the Greens nor FF would dream of touching the poison chalice that is Angola... er... Dept of Health.
Had the dubious pleasure of meeting her once at a protest on withdrawal of cancer care services. Either she can't count (stats on patients treated) or the mandarins are seriously misleading her. Hospital managers had one set of figures, she had something totally different and designed to close cancer services. Go figure Mary!

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