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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3We are constantly receiving different information about the health service with no way of knowing the truth. We as the taxpayers are on the outside looking in and are considered almost irrelevant to the health 'service'. So another angle to your comment could be that the services are the first thing to be cut and not beaurocracy, management etc.
We now hear that the consultants are trying to block new contracts, and all the different workers are looking for pay increases outside of the benchmarking, which already is in no way comparable to the pay/work practices in the private sector.
Anyway the whole thing seems way out of control. Meanwhile the HSE has been set up as a patsie for the government to deflect decisions etc.
My personal conclusion is that it's no different than the rest of the public sector services, where services to the taxpaying public are almost irrelevant.
You're confused alright Davekey. Setting private sector pay against public sector pay is missing the point. Why are one set of workers set against another while we never talk about vast amount of profit and 'remuneration' that shareholders and bosses take?
In terms of the HSE, perhaps it is not the real target to be directing fire AT but the manner in which it is organised and THE priorities which it stands over are exposed in the above letter.
There should be no need for waiting lists in an Ireland of today which is generating so much profit for 'private' individuals ... So many people suffer or are cut out by the 'two tier' health service. The actions of the hospital in Cork are only making things worse.
You haven’t cleared up any confusion. Benchmarking is supposed to address the balance between public and private sector workers. There is no comparison, in the public sector there’s a lack of accountability and openness to work changes that would not be tolerated in the private sector. The consultants seem to have the government over a barrel and are financed by taxpayers. The health service seems to be incapable of delivering services no matter how much money is thrown at them.
The two tier health service may address this issue and bring about some changes for the better. I’m not a rampant capitalist, nor do I think the free market is God but just basing my opinion on my own observations. If people have the money and are willing to pay for a proper health service for themselves and their families then they have every right to do so.
Some of the actions of the health services over the years have been nothing short of criminal, look at all the scandals that have never been addressed or people even been fired never mind prosecuted. Again taxpayers footing the legal and compensation bill.
I know it’s off the point but I repeat that public services are really not interested in providing a service. They are full of people in powerful positions who are unaccountable and couldn’t care less about their customers. I’ve experienced the same thing in FAS, the Civil Service, Dublin City Council, the Gardai and RTE. Arrogant idiots who think you should be subservient to them and are more interested in office politics and power than real service delivery.