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No expense spared

  • 21-02-2013 6:39pm
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    celticcrash
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭


    Labour Cllr Joe Leddin gets 650euro expensive`s for day trip.


    Waiting lists up. Front line staff numbers down.
    Yet the health services can still foot the bill of around €52,000 a year for members of the Health Forum West to travel ridiculous distances to ask questions. That's before adding the cost of travel and accommodation for HSE staff.
    Every two months, the Forum meets so that members can question the HSE about its practices, plans and policies. No-one would argue that the HSE should be above scrutiny.
    But by what warped reasoning should the taxpayer have to foot the bill for a member to drive nearly 300 kilometers from County Limerick or West Clare to get a written answer to a written question at a time when the person paid to wash the floor for a disabled granny is having their hours cut?
    Granted, those answers are up for discussion but the forum is a watchdog with no teeth - no matter what it unearths it can, of itself, effect no change.

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