LIVELINE Thread - (05/10/11 to 14/02/2012)

my friend

Can we obtain an answer to the following question...

How much of the HSE budget is spent on Housing the following:

- families/people that have been evicted by Councils due to anti-social activity

- refugees / immigrants

We need to know, try and see if Joe lets us ask the question

Big Daddy Cool

jesus christ, more doom and gloom, is there nobody apart from tommy that has come through this illness, and even more impressive how did he manage to get on liveline to tell his story.

IvyTheTerrible

I would not be happy paying the 100 euro household charge just for mental health. Tax is ALREADY supposed to be going to the health service.

my friend

Note the word usage:

'suffering'

never

'fighting'

yosser hughes

The problem with liveline when dealing with an issue like this is that anyone with mental health problems is just as likely to get bad advice as good. Apart from all of that you will get reactionary,conspiracy theory cranks and all manner of amateur psychology. All of this goes unchecked by our esteemed host.
The guy asking for the €100 household charge to go to mental health resources obviously does not realise that billions and billions go in to our health service it's just not directed to where it should be.
There are people working in our health service that work hard and do a good job;but there are also ALOT of people who actually do nothing and get well paid for it.That money they are getting paid is less money for where it matters.
I have witnessed these people and those working in the hospitals know who they are.

AnnyHallsal

pc7 wrote: »

Chapette Anny Yeah I'll have to dust my ears out of Joe, stick on a bit of George Michael, get my glad rags on and go freeze the pegs off myself getting there!

I feel cheered up already. They don't call em glad rags for nothing

county

that felt like a very long liveline.

bijapos

Serious programme today, so I left till the end to put this up:

IvyTheTerrible

I think Joe needs to learn what irony means...

SEPT 23 1989

What a long Liveline week that was

Wertz

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I would not be happy paying the 100 euro household charge just for mental health. Tax is ALREADY supposed to be going to the health service.

Better to that than to the pension funds of ex ministers, civil servants and the rest of the early retiring public service hanging their boots up in the new year... which is where much of the 160 million is going in one way or other.

my friend

they can hardly weld the crack on the gas tanker? can they? citizens of Belfast evacuate....

Big Daddy Cool

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

What a long Liveline week that was

agreed, i feel 43 instead of 33 after that week, and i feel like opening a bottle of jameson to :eek:

pc7

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

instead of 33

that's a good age BDC, same age as Jebus

my friend

yosser hughes wrote: »

The problem with liveline when dealing with an issue like this is that anyone with mental health problems is just as likely to get bad advice as good. Apart from all of that you will get reactionary,conspiracy theory cranks and all manner of amateur psychology. All of this goes unchecked by our esteemed host.
The guy asking for the €100 household charge to go to mental health resources obviously does not realise that billions and billions go in to our health service it's just not directed to where it should be.
There are people working in our health service that work hard and do a good job;but there are also ALOT of people who actually do nothing and get well paid for it.That money they are getting paid is less money for where it matters.
I have witnessed these people and those working in the hospitals know who they are.

How much of the HSE budget is spent on Housing the following:

- families/people that have been evicted by Councils due to anti-social activity

- refugees / immigrants

JonathanAnon

wtf .. I had to take a phone call.. turned back on the radio and Groundskeeper Willie is talking about Polar Bears..

my friend

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

agreed, i feel 43 instead of 33 after that week, and i feel like opening a bottle of jameson to :eek:

have you ever tried Kilbeggan?

Wertz

yosser hughes wrote: »

That money they are getting paid is less money for where it matters.
I have witnessed these people and those working in the hospitals know who they are.

You're right of course...money being thrown at the problems hasn't worked when much of it is in wage increases and spending in areas where there is little return and no direct impact on the patients themselves
I too have witnessed in small ways the wastage that goes on in some of these places...blowing yearly budgets on unnecessary works toward the end of the period so they'll get more next year. Made up jobs and tiers of jobs mainly managerial and admin and associated red tape which can add further to other costs. Reliance on more costly agency staff in the wake of self imposed recruitment moratorium that supposed to cut costs...and all this going on out of reach of our politicians it would seem.

yosser hughes

my friend wrote: »

How much of the HSE budget is spent on Housing the following:

- families/people that have been evicted by Councils due to anti-social activity

- refugees / immigrants

I have no idea. Maybe you could find out with a FOI request or maybe the figures are actually published somewhere.Try the CSO website.

Big Daddy Cool

pc7 wrote: »

that's a good age BDC, same age as Jebus

ha thanks, in fact ive actually aged another year, i was 34 last week not 33, that damn depressing liveline ages ya without you even knowing

Big Daddy Cool

my friend wrote: »

have you ever tried Kilbeggan?

us meathmen couldnt possibly try anything in association with west meath unless they are female

yosser hughes

my friend wrote: »

have you ever tried Kilbeggan?

Middleton is nice but verrry pricey. Macallan single malt is the best I've had.

my friend

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

us meathmen couldnt possibly try anything in association with west meath unless they are female

feckin Jameson is from Cork !!!!!!!! :eek:

anyways, Meath used to stretch to the Shannon and encompassed Kilbeggan back in the Brehon Law days...

Big Daddy Cool

that richard lad's voice on mooney is almost as depressing as liveline :eek: what the hell is going on in rte

my friend

yosser hughes wrote: »

Middleton is nice but verrry pricey. Macallan single malt is the best I've had.

dont you mean mmmmmmmmmiddleton!

my friend

was that mooneys gaydar?

steelcityblues

Looked like yer man was going to have to leave the BBC studio, lol!

padd b1975

JonathanAnon wrote: »

wtf .. I had to take a phone call.. turned back on the radio and Groundskeeper Willie is talking about Polar Bears..

I thought it was Jackie Stewart.

Lapin

So for the week ahead, the issues of the nation and the wider world take a back seat as Joe presents us with what he seems enjoys more than anything else.

Lists.

Joe loves lists and nobody does top 10 lists like him. Stand by for the top 10 books of the year, the top 10 highlights of the year and the top 10 low points etc etc...

"As voted by youse, the listeners to Lahvline" doncha know !

He usually has an author or two on the line during the top 10 book show, so expect lots of sycophantic gushing and fawning and a high 'well done well done' count. I'm hoping Paddy Powers will open a book on the number of times he says the word 'Fantastic'.

Friday's show will feature callers from the four corners of the world (the more exotic the better according to Joe last week) sending greetings bemused relatives here in Ireland, who probably had them on Skype the night before. Expect a poem and a song and the customary few tears. From my memory of this show last year, it consisted of Irish people in far off places trying to outdo each other with tales of their magnificent success in those far off places, followed by Joe telling them how 'Brilliant' they were.

Personally, I'd love to hear from a Paddy, the owner some illicit sheebeen in the middle of North Korea telling Joe how the 10 days of mourning for the Dear Leader is crippling his trade, and if things don't pick up soon, he'll have to consider moving home. Someone like that would definitely make my top 10 list of Liveline callers !

neris

Joes on newstalk now ivan yates licking his backside