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Privatisation of Old Age

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Thursday April 13, 2006 15:12author by ARI - ARI Report this post to the editors

Minister gets heckles from angry older people

The Active Retirement Ireland (ARI) agm yesterday in Dublin Castle saw hundreds of angry older people letting a FF Minister know what they think of the private sectors control of the nursing home sector.

Is it not time that opposition political parties started to make this a serious issue? According to the ARI the state is obliged by law to provide public nursing home places, however that is not the reality on the ground. When you are old and need to go to a nursing home, an expensive private bed is your only option. The ARI organsiation seems to be the only one making this argument?

See Daily Ireland article http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_scope=Da...opp=1

Heckles for health minister

Pensioners’ conference calls on state to provide public nursing home places for elderly
13/04/2006

A Fianna Fáil minister was heckled on numerous occasions by more than 300 elderly people at a conference in Dublin Castle yesterday.
Minister of state at the Department of Health and Children, Sean Power, was speaking at the Active Retirement Ireland (ARI) annual general meeting in Dublin.
The government was criticised by speakers for allowing the private sector take control of the nursing home market in the Republic.

see article continued at Daily Ireland http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_scope=Da...opp=1

author by Tpublication date Thu Apr 13, 2006 16:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Has anyone of few pictures of this?

author by dipublication date Thu Apr 13, 2006 17:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

There was a pic of the minister speaking at the event in Daily Ireland today, but not sure how you would have pics of "heckles"

I wonder if he was badly heckled? have not seen anything anywhere else about it. Although the whole issue of private nursing homes is a big one...we are all going to be old at some stage:(

 
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