@kenoflynnTD I've heard the HSE are not replacing clients on the rota's of their own HSE home help health care workers and out sourcing the new clients who are approved for the service to private operators, agencies.
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Michael Madden
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€832 million.
That is what the HSE spent on agency staffing in 2025.
Up from €726 million in 2024.
That is a rise of €106 million in one year.
The HSE says it wants to reduce reliance on agency staff.
The figures show the opposite.
Taxpayers deserve answers.
Where is the money going?
What savings have been achieved?
Why is the system still so dependent on agency staffing?
#HSE #Health #Accountability #Ireland #Dáil
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@BibleBaggins46 We're literally taught that he came from Wales in school, you utter halfwit
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Always remind the Irish that Saint Patrick was BRITISH
Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦@HackBlackburn
Why is St Andrew’s Day never filled with tedious people going “He was Galilean actually”?
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I remember a Traveller I went to school with named Thomas used to only come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays because his name began with T.
The other days he'd stand outside the school smoking and throwing things at the windows.
But yea "Racism" is why he's not a brain surgeon...
NewstalkFM@NewstalkFM
Young Travellers continue to perform poorly at schools because of “quite harrowing” racism within the education system, a report has concluded. newstalk.com/news/traveller…
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@NewstalkFM Ah yeah, its always the non-traveller communities fault.
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🗣️ "There's a lot of hurt and pain in the research."
📚 Only 167 Travellers in Ireland have degrees, in part because most of them experience so much racism in school.
newstalk.com/news/traveller…
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@LPerrins Probably because there is a bit more accountability in the UK
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So contactless payment is standard on London underground and bus. In fact I can use my AIB card. But I can't use my AIB card on the Luas. The contract to make Dublin transport contactless looks like entering a massive overspend.
They can do it London, but they never seem to able to do it in Dublin even though we run a budget surplus.
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@PaddyShanks I'm raising my children in Ulster and Ireland. NI isn't Ulster.
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Catholics love living in Northern Ireland and have opted to bring up their children in Ulster rather than Ireland, they are going nowhere, just sitting on a very comfortable UK rocking horse.
Sean Devlin@SeanDev50409859
Riding our way to a united ireland 🇮🇪 💪
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@NiallStanage Yeah, running to open to everyone, only person you're competing against is yourself
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One of the things I like about running is, it's very democratic. A regular person can huff and puff along at half this guy's pace, and feel how utterly extraordinary you have to be to do a 2:01 marathon.
ESPN@espn
With a time of 2:01:52, John Korir is a back-to-back men's Boston Marathon champion 🏆
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@MichaelMadden16 @NiallStanage Rory is an outstanding golfer/athlete and a superb ambassador for Northern Ireland, but he has a Catholic background, so the cheeky comment about Prods wouldn't apply to him 😉
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This is the north of Ireland’s love language, for those who don’t know.
The Exiled Writer@forexkeylevels
@NiallStanage I never thought a prod from Methody would do us proud, but here we are.
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@NiallStanage Yep, you and your fellow Irishman Jamie Dornan are doing Northern Ireland proud👏
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@1rorycowan 🤣🤣 did you sit down and wonder how can I make the anger Irish people have with the government about Israel and Palestine? Rest assured, If anyone had landed to the protest with an Israeli or Palestinian flags last week, they would have been raced. Majority don't really care.
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Their problems really started when they agreed to reward terrorism by recognising a Palestinian state. That sickened many people and made them look more carefully at other policies FF were getting behind, and they didn't really get behind them either.
This observation of mine applies to FG too. Their problems in government started when they took such a biased anti-Israel stance, too. Both FF and FG got their stance on Israel and their condemnations of Israel so wrong that it only put the eye of the public's attention to focus more closely on other issues and policies they were implementing.
Both FF and FG didn't play fair when it came to Israel, and this made many people wonder what other policies and issues both parties were not playing fair with either. They deserve the position they find themselves in
Mary Regan@MaryERegan
🚨A groups of Fianna Fáil TDs have requested an urgent meeting of the parliamentary party to discuss “the party’s current standing” and the “cause of our difficulties.” - letter sent by Sean Ó Fearghail, Paudie O’Sullivan and Anne Rabbitte @Independent_ie
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@0x445352 Coleman works for Virgin media and Newstalk, they aren't government funded through the tv license fee
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Taxpayers pay both Shane and John. Neither Shane nor John believe taxes should be any lower. Total shocker.
TonightVMTV@TonightVMTV
🗣️ "There is a view out there that we are awash with money." – Guest presenter Shane Coleman 🗣️ "If there is a recession, there is going to be a huge hole in the public finances." – Professor John Fitzgerald, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin #TonightVMTV
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@Independent_ie Male TD's get shouted down and heckled too. A poor attempt to muddy the water
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Helen McEntee accuses Independent Ireland TDs of misogyny and ‘barking down’ female colleagues buff.ly/WMoyPxs
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@Ben_Scallan If you gave the legislators in Leinster House a goose that laid a golden egg every day, they would probably cook and eat the thing. This is a prime example
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Why do we all have to collectively lie and pretend this individual is qualified to be a legislator?
Irishman@IrishmanIRL
"The protests were overtook by the far-right" Senator Eileen Flynn says she won't attend any protest that has a tricolour
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If you talk to people, everyone hates the Irish government. But in reality, one in two of them will vote Fine Gael and Fianna Fail every single time.
It's amazing.
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I think the present government has destroyed the relationship between the public and the Garda Síochána for good, Having a late lunch in a resturant and four members of the guards walked in three males and a woman. Suddenly the place went quiet, they were seated, Other customers and staff looking at them.
Their order was taken and shortly after the owner or manager went and asked them very politely to leave the premises as they were not welcome, that their presence was upsetting other customers and would they inform their colleagues they are not welcome either, As they walked out the door tail between their legs people clapped and cheered it was surreal.
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@Your_New_Pal @davidmcw @IrishTimes @IrishTimesOpEd You would have to wonder, I'd imagine mismanagement and no accountability
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@MichaelMadden16 @davidmcw @IrishTimes @IrishTimesOpEd Also we have one of the younger skewing populations in the EU, yet are among the highest spenders per capita. The HSE is importing cheaper foreign workers, so where does that money go?
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Morning, @IrishTimes @IrishTimesOpEd article today is on the monumental waste of public money that plagues Ireland. The State is pissing billions away every year. The figures are startling. No one is accountable.
irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…
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@Muinchille He was on thin enough ice with party after the presidential election, this will finish him
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Soooo... after this unholy mess, will Martin make it to the European presidency he so clearly covets?
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@DavQuinn A health budget of over 27 billion for a population north of 5 million people, tells you all need to know, especially, considering the large % of that 5 million plus people that hold private insurance already. Department of Health should be audited
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Do you know, if the Government kept its stratospheric public spending more under control, it would have more room to cut its insane taxes on fuel.
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