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HEALTH MINISTER LEO Varadkar had an intense exchange with a number of GPs on Twitter yesterday after they hit out at him over the under-sixes service.
The minister had triumphantly tweeted that 40,000 children were already registered for free GP care and almost three quarters of doctors had signed up.
It didn’t go down well with GPs who are opposed to the scheme but Varadkar was ready to give as good as he got:
Ciara Kelly raised the National Organisation of General Practitioners’ (NAGP) exclusion from talks on the scheme, as it represents a large number of doctors.
And with a reminder that “taxpayers come first”, the health minister signed off for the night, leaving his followers to debate it out amongst themselves.
Public registration for free GP care opened last Monday. The Department of Health reached an agreement with the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO), which represents around half of Ireland’s GPs, on the scheme but the NAGP has remained strongly opposed to it.
The association claims the scheme will significantly increase the workloads of already stretched general practitioners.
However Minister for Primary Care, Kathleen Lynch, said last week parents are not likely to misuse the service, stating the government had not “invented more children”.
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‘..face severe disciplinary action…’, should be facing severe criminal charges more like
My money is on PETA being behind this.
You do know what PETA stands for?
Can peta make you sick.
Yes I do know what they stand for. They are an organisation of people that care about fluffing their own egos than animal rights.
Check out an of the widely available documentation of PETA funding the extermination of healthy dogs that could have been rehomed.
Also they are categorically against dog breeders and as such would rather see the breeding animals die so that no further puppies may be bred from them.
PETA are filth.
Could not agree more peta are disgraceful bunch of aholes
Nonsense! It is obvious you have read very biased articles on Peta. They do not hide what they do, they admit they destroy animals only when there is no other option. I am not going to get into a discussion on the matter there is plenty of answers on Petas website. Its strange that all the anti Peta material is financed by a large drinks company that own a number of sealife parks that Peta has exposed as cruel.
It is evil to kill anything like this, full stop.
have your say