The wondrous adventures of Sinn Fein (part 3) Mod Notes and Threadbanned List in OP

What I am suggesting is that the Health service is practically unmanageable.

Why would it be a united Ireland in all but name?

The line on here from those who support Sinn Fein is that the executive isn't a government and can do nothing, yet now it is all powerful and when SF are in charge in both jurisdictions we have a united Ireland?

It would be good if this could be cleared up.

Sinn Féin priorities in government would include:

• Increase spending on healthcare by €3.3 billion to move from a failing, two tier health system to universal healthcare.
• Recruit 6,600 additional frontline health workers including nurses, midwives and consultants.
• Roll out free GP care and free prescriptions.
• End two-tier access to hospital care and deal with the trolley crisis.
• Invest an additional €15 million in the ambulance service.
• Prioritise disability services and mental health.
• Support older people by increasing home help hours, respite hours and providing additional nursing home beds.

Bear in mind that we already overspend in healthcare, yet SF plan to simply throw more money at it, 3.3 billion.

We should have shorter waiting times and lists with the same amount of expenditure.

Instead, I fear that SF are too union-friendly, and won't tackle entrenched work practices.

Maryanne84 I have been looking through the last couple of pages of posts and I can't find where this thread as you say "it's wandered into the Enda Kenny hating territory", Can you point me to where this is please?

The problem for SF in the last election is that they didn't run enough candidates, they were caught by surprise I suppose by the level of support. Now the problem is do they have enough candidates to run.

"Recent polls putting them on 35-37% of the vote would see them winning 65 seats at a bare minimu."

Counting chickens before they're hatched.

You know it isn't all about your conspiracy theories.

This arises from the Oireachtas Committee on the GFA discussing the issue over the last few weeks, before there was any opinion poll.

And if you are looking for a media bias, one has to ask why the media weren't all over those Committee hearings and reporting what was said in them.

Adding to the distress of victims by saying that it "seems very disingenuous and fake" is disgusting.

Actually I must apologise to the media because I missed this article.

"Mr McVeigh told the Oireachtas committee on the Good Friday Agreement today: “It’s all leading back to one party, and one group in particular, and that’s Sinn Féin and the Provisional movement and the Republican movement.

“They can garner this information, can make an effort to get this information, and, you know, talk is cheap. We can talk all day. But we don't need talk we need actions.

“It needs to be brought to the highest possible level in Sinn Féin. For example, it is never spoken about by Mary Lou McDonald in the Dáil.

“I never hear it mentioned. I never heard any reports or anything. The Deputy First Minister (Michelle O’Neill, Sinn Féin Northern Leader) had a question (on the Disappeared) put to her Justin McNulty from the SDLP.

“And she fudged the question. She would probably know me personally, but she fudged the question and didn't want to answer it,” Mr McVeigh told listening TDs and Senators, including from Sinn Féin, under qualified parliamentary privilege."

This is the voice of a victim, this is what is dismissed as seeming disingenuous and fake.

Many years ago when I was a drinking man I spent an evening in the company of a writer from South America. He was not very well known or famous but what he said then struck me, more so now than ever before, he said, 'Tell people the truth and they will ignore you, tell people a lie and they will love you for it'

That is quietly relevant to a lot of voters who follow a certain path.

I put up a post where I only used the words of the victims. Here they are again:

""Mr McVeigh told the Oireachtas committee on the Good Friday Agreement today: “It’s all leading back to one party, and one group in particular, and that’s Sinn Féin and the Provisional movement and the Republican movement.

“They can garner this information, can make an effort to get this information, and, you know, talk is cheap. We can talk all day. But we don't need talk we need actions.

“It needs to be brought to the highest possible level in Sinn Féin. For example, it is never spoken about by Mary Lou McDonald in the Dáil.

“I never hear it mentioned. I never heard any reports or anything. The Deputy First Minister (Michelle O’Neill, Sinn Féin Northern Leader) had a question (on the Disappeared) put to her Justin McNulty from the SDLP.

“And she fudged the question. She would probably know me personally, but she fudged the question and didn't want to answer it,” Mr McVeigh told listening TDs and Senators, including from Sinn Féin, under qualified parliamentary privilege."

I am putting them up to remind people of what the victims actually said and asked for. I ask for no more than what they seek. That isn't using victims, that is supporting them.