Government's secret plan to block repayment of illegal nursing home charges

This is a multi-generational issue now. The low types in FFG have betrayed some of their most loyal supporters. This and the disability payments issue must be embarrassing for decent FFG supporters.

Regards...jmcc

You can give us whatever you like, you're still talking tosh.

I'm listening to Verona Murphy on the radio at the moment, still asserting a load of made up nonsense absolutely not borne out by this report of the AG or any of the 12 prior.

In fairness to Cormac Ó'hEadhra, he is at every turn saying 'no, nope, wrong, no it hasn't, no it isn't', and Verona is flailing.

They say there is no smoke without fire, but when there is not even any smoke to be seen and you start to hear bleating from The Ditch and debunked self-regarding whistle-blowers, do yourselves a favour and think twice before boarding the bandwagon.

Its funny that they choose to call themselves 'The Ditch', for a couple of reasons.

One, hurlers on the ditch are said to be those who think they know everything but participate in nothing.

And two, what do you find in a ditch, only stagnant slurry runoff and dead rodents.

Indeed.

Correct Blanch, 100%.

As for scalps, if someone has done something wrong, they should be held accountable under the law or the code of ethics, in proportion with the offence.

Its the making sh1t up and trying to impugn past decisions with the same baseless rubbish that I have a problem with.

Thankfully, I do believe most Irish people know a charlatan job when they see one, particularly stuff as amateurish as we see with boring regularity from the Paddy Cosgrave orbit. Its quite pathetic.

The ones the MSM would not cover.

An ignorant comment, but not unexpected.

I have plenty of compassion for my fellow citizens, I think we need to do lots more to reduce the tax burden, on making work pay and on going hard after the formation of a single tier, patient centric health service, free at the point of entry. I want to take on the interests and lobbies that have so blunted this effort for years.

I want to lower education costs at all levels, to bring in a sustainable State wide model of co-operative public housing and to expand our model of national school education all the way down to 6 months of age, to vastly reduce childcare costs and improve the choices for working parents and to eliminate reliance on imported energy and being subject to fossil fuel market fluctuations.

But none of it is possible without rigourous and forensic management of the public finances, promoting strong economic flexibility and sustainable growth and not allowing narrow interests, of any sort, to take the exchequer for a ride, be it through cartel pricing, closed shop mentalities, wasteful practices or litigious tendencies.

My heart is in the right place. The question is, are your heads?

I've been very busy with work these past few days and haven't been able to comment much on this.

My expectation was that Ffg would try to spin the AG's comments to look at this as legal strategy rather than a policy issue.

While no expert on the role of an AG, I was quite shocked to see Rossa Fanning do that for them. Would it not be part of the role to be politically impartial?

Who is this guy to be saying refusing refunds to the elderly and disabled is a reasonable and rationale policy? Is he an authority on public policy or the plight of the disabled?

I suppose I shouldn't expect much more from someone whose made a living defending the likes of Lowery, Facebook and peadophile priests.

Redress = compensation, usually following on from litigation.

You are contradicting yourself within the same post. The people who were charged for nursing homes are all dead, who are you redressing other than ambulance-chasing lawyers and descendants?

What has changed is that neither practice is current here, unlike other jurisdictions.

Eh, yes, it is an independent office with a significant amount of credibility.

The problem on this occasion is that it didn't say what you wanted to hear. The public have been led down a silly path by scurrilous journalists funded by a malcontent and informed by ambulance-chasing lawyers. It was smooth stuff from them, but the AG pretty much laid it out in clear language that they didn't have a clue.

Many of the people who wrongly had their disability payments taken are still alive.

Many of those descendants will be people whose parents qualified for public nursing homes but had to pay privately because none were available.

I'm sure plenty made hard sacrifices to have their parents cared for, and often with young families at the time.

Before anyone suggests otherwise I would in no way qualify for either refund. I just think it's disgusting they've been denied that money all this time.

While successive FFG governments have been lining the pockets of their cronies.

Shock horror, opposition party leaders disagree with decision of Government based on advice taken by its legal advisor.

Sounds like a load of 'Yeah but, what about' to me, when their first punches completely failed to land.

This is over. In fact, we're the only ones still talking about it!