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The Daily PollYESTERDAY, TAOISEACH LEO Varadkar apologised for his response to concerns over the mortuary at University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
Varadkar said he didn’t want to “jump to conclusions” after four consultants had claimed that dead bodies were being left on trolleys in the mortuary.
The Taoiseach said he’d seen no evidence that the claims were accurate but his response was criticised for casting doubt on the claims of the consultants.
In his apology, Varadkar said it was “one I got wrong”. So was he right to apologise?
Poll: Was Leo Varadkar right to apologise for his response to the Waterford mortuary controversy?
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He’s a joke and he should resign. Came to limerick and didn’t even bother to go to the hosptial to see for himself how bad the crisis is. LEO OUT
@Mahuna: was it worth it all 1916 and the War of Independence ending up with dross for leaders? Ahearn, Brian Clown, Kenny and now this spin merchant Varadcar? Where did it all go wrong?
@Gus Sheridan: those men of 1916 are turning in their graves. I have a very good opinion on that but I wouldn’t waste my time. Where did it all go wrong when the gravy trains were on route.
@Mahuna: The whole lot, Flanagan hasn’t a clue whats going on in Dundalk.
@lar keogh: in England to get Into a political party and go to college also to get your degree in politics. Here all you have to do is get a few votes and your in the door.
You couldn’t make it up. Flanagan stop sure look at Ming openly admits to smoking cannibis.
Sometime they will make a film about them.
@Mahuna: don’t think that’s true.
@Mahuna: I think you are missing the point of how democratic elections work
@john doe: I’m not missing the point maybe I wrote it down wrong which is an error on my behalf most of them do.
Yes I know it’s above the vote. But the shower we have in fairness it’s hard to relax when your thinking if your child’s gets sick god forbid you havnt a healthcare system to rely on.
And he’s an actual doctor like Leo vadick
I don’t think we should jump to conclusions regarding this poll as there is no evidence to its accuracy.
@Mahuna: it all went wrong when people put more importance on which TD got their mother a medical card or what funerals they turn up at (Healy Reas a case in point). They say all politics are local and therein lies the problem. If everyone looked at what the party are doing rather than the local gombeen, we would be in a much better place.
@Mark McGrath: Truth.
@Gus Sheridan: If you’re feeling that bad about it, have a look at who’s in charge in Britain and the USA. It will make you feel a lot better.
Ehhmm..
Get different claims from 2 different parties.
Will not jump to conclusions before he has all the facts and then peps moans over that?!
@Mahuna: yeh and what great politicians they have in England.. they doing a great job aren’t they
@Mark McGrath: never happen mark … people wont vote for people who tell them what they dont want to hear ..
@Gus Sheridan: and be replaced by? Who would you like to see in charge?
Yes, and there’s plenty more for him to apologise for too.
And its more like the party forced him into apologising because there’s an election coming up. He would never do it if he had the option because its bad for his image.
The only thing that matters to Varadkar is self image and his personal spin Dept, a propaganda machine more in keeping with banana republics than legitimate democracies. When he starts putting the people of Ireland and democratic principles before his ego, perhaps then he could be taken seriously. The only reason he has apologized to those consultants who put their necks and career on the line in the interest of doing what’s right, is that his image could have been tarnished. Varadkar is out for himself, and himself alone. Irish Politics are simply a stepping stone to his future career in Europe where he’ll undoubtedly sell us down the river in his bid for personal political enrichment.
Consultants put their necks on the line to expose the ever increasingly disastrous state the health system has crumbled to under FFG governance, Leo tried to demonise them, implied they were lying- even tried to get the hospital admin to double down with him… it backfired massively when people *gasps* actually believed the doctors who have to work there so he took time out of his busy, pet projects, fawning on famous people and photo-op schedule to say *sorry*….
@Sarah: Kylie would be disappointed in him
That qualified apology he gave only succeeded in digging a bigger hole for himself and FG. FG under Kenny and Varadkar have done,
and continue to do, huge damage to Irish society in their obsession to privatise and commodify all aspects of life in the country. No amount of apologies will ever fix that.
It’s actually so wrong I went to the hosptial 3 years ago with a pain in my side this will tell you how bad it is. They put me on a trolley for 38 hours then I got a bed I was told afyer having a xray scans with dye every scan you can imagine. They told me I had to get my left kidney out just imagine been told that and your a young man it devastated me. 18 hours after been told that I signed the waiver for the anaesthetic. Brought down for the operation crying I will admit. They were just going to put me to sleep and a consultant ran in and stopped it.
There was noting wrong with my kidney fast forward to the 6th of January this year 27 admissions later. They diagnosed me with having fibermoilgia. I have written to Simon Harris minister for health and other ministers to get to meet him.
My point being also the consultant saved my kidney. The HSE are a joke and he’s the top of the pile Leo.
Only passing book and very poor effort for an apology. When public sentiment = pee’d off.. Spin required the FFG way..
When will he realise that the HSE constantly lies and tries to perform Cover-up after Cover-up… This organisation needs to be disbanded and a new Health organisation needs to be formed that puts the patient first based around hospital trusts and boards of management from the cummunities they serve.
@Finbarr Barry: Ideally yes, but let’s be real…In Ireland, under FG….
Hospital trusts = private investors, foreigners and vulture funds
Boards of management = politically well-connected 1%ers
@Finbarr Barry: There is no ideal world for us to wait around for.
I wonder do the FG faithful realise how much damage Leo is doing to the party.
They were all over this story defending him at the begining.
No proof, no need for it to be investigated, even though the truth was pretty obvious.
Now we have the climbdown and they have disappeared.
Doesn’t say much for the type of support the party has.
@Logan Shepherd: They were teaming up attacking anyone who disagreed with Leo’s stance on the issue. I got a few lectures along with the usual name calling.
@Dave Doyle: Ha didn’t we all. Not big enough to supply any Leoesque apologies though.
It’s an apology based on political advice to diffuse a situation he’s better backing away from since the public weren’t buying his spin. It’s an empty apology but it’s really against the point to care whether he apologises for this or not, what the public want is action on the health service not finger pointing or a “mea culpa”.
@Rochelle: A mea culpa suggests a sense of personal responsibility or culpability. It’s a completely empty gesture like Simon Harris’ little “whoops maybe I mismanaged a billion euro in taxpayer money but I sure as hell am not getting off this gravy train”. Public apologies by Irish politicians are completely insincere, empty, and yes, insulting, apologies have lost all meaning when our elected representatives believe that they can get a free pass and wipe the slate clean with an “I’m sorry” and continue on as is – any self-respecting public servant with an ounce of integrity or credibility would step down as well as apologize – but not here… here the parties circle the wagons to protect their pals and further foster this legacy of corruption and mediocrity .
It must be nice to live in a world where actions have no consequences except to us “little people” who suffer because of their incompetence…
And he should also apologise for his useless government in power and promise they’ll never run for power again
@liam ward60: you obviously dont support FG
Is someone desperate for clicks?
He’s a spin merchant with zero empathy
I think it’s game over for him.
Nearly 300 people think he should not have apologised. Why on earth would they think this? It was clear that Varadkar inferred that they were not telling the truth as nobody else had raised the issue. It now transpires that plent of people had.
What’s worse is he is a qualified doc, he knows full well that they wouldn’t lie!
Had the pleasure of him knocking on my door during the 2011 election, I asked him about him wanting to sell off the ESB &ESBI and if he knew what they did globally.
And if they sold it off the jobs lost here would be huge he hadn’t an answer and his cronies pulled him away from the door.
I think it’s game over for him
@kevin mc cormack:
Hope you’re right !
He should never have put himself in a position to have to apologize.he should have known the facts before he commented .He has failed .he is NOT fit for office. Thank you for your service we wish you well in your future endeavours.
Leo had to apologise. He said that no letters or complaints were received, yet the CEO of the South/South West Hospital Group had replied to these letters:
https://twitter.com/deisesupes/status/1124405086262894592?s=21
Leo was talking out of his arse without knowing what he was talking about again.
He’s not fit for office. Anyone who votes FFG again should have their vote taken off them.
@Red Hen:
We are entitled to vote for whoever we choose to vote for
@Red Hen: in your humble opinion … where are the alternatives?
Was he right to apologise? Come on journal, he did apologise, don’t try to take it away from us, what’s seldom is wonderful…
Just a shame Callan’s Kicks is on leave. Leo might just have got the wrong kind of ‘roasting’!
@Norman Cameron: was only thinking the same thing…! Finished a week too soon.
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I’m someone who was raised in an FG family. In the 50s and 60s when the civil war divisions were still fresh. As such it is still the party I look to first on a ballot paper. But they don’t always get my first, orveveb second preference.
His apology over Waterford is small stuff,
Much of what he does is small stuff, and merely the everyday stuff of politics.
What really got me about him, and his wrongness as the leader of a party, let alone holding the office of Taoiseach, was his glib statement on the cervical check issue to the point that no woman would have to go to, or through, the courts to get justice.
That gas been proven to be utterly wrong, and as a man, I’m disgusted by it.
He is unfit for office.
@@mdmak33: sure he had the body of a 50year old they told him on operation transformation hahahaha
The state the country is in and still the Dail is in recess. Unbelievable!
Who cares. He’s a caretaker Taoiseach until the next election. If he gets past that then he has a mandate.
@Garry Coll: I’d say he’s been on plenty of mandates
@Mahuna: So bad I burst out laughing .. thanks for that.
@Logan Shepherd: no problem haha
Not a Varadkar fan, but why should someone have to apologise for stating the obvious? Of course there’s a requirement for evidence! It would be foolish to take every claim that was ever made at face value without some form of investigation
@_jamie: good old FG apologist…..
@_jamie: Varadkar insinuated that the consultants were liars by saying there was no evidence to back up what they alleged.
@Chemical Brothers: Was there evidence?
@Gus Sheridan: You may have missed the first three words of my comment Gus
@_jamie: FG’ers all seem to suffer from St. Peter’s syndrome.
@_jamie: the bloody evidence was clear but he chose to believe his 3million spin machine would never be wrong
@_jamie: Witness Testimony is evidence, Jamie. Leo tried to treat this like just another anti-establishment rant from a few of the unwashed.
He said recently said, of the public disapproval of the €120,000 mayor salary:
“Nobody likes the idea of politicians being paid…certainly not being paid more – and I understand why that is but you know if this is a real job with real power and influence then it should come with a salary that matches that and that’s why we decided to pitch it somewhere around the level of a Minister Of State…”
Seriously. “Nobody likes the idea of politicians being”. Really, Leo? Is that what you think of the general public? They’re nothing but a pack of begrudgers, isn’t that right?
Proper man of the people alright.
Check out his socks though. Aren’t they cool?!!
*…being paid
@_jamie: Some families of deceased & undertakers also came forward.
@_jamie:
Can you count ?
@_jamie: his response was smarmy, snide and audacious… his tone infuriated more than the words used. He is a self absorbed egotistical Dublin-centric snob! He got his answer when we did his whistle stop tour of the South/South East… he did more damage than good to local election and MEP candidates.
I think an extra two billion is being spent on the hse this year. Two billion and it’s getting worse. Varadkar is a disgrace !
Poor Leo gets such a hard time, get off his back lads, it’s tough at the top
@Tony Donoghue: It’s tougher when you’re at the bottom, lying on a trolley in a hospital corridor and the dead beside you on another trolley.
@Dave Doyle: No one person can rule the people alone, the people are ruled by an ideal of life held up by authority. Which constituency are you standing for election in?
@Tony Donoghue: In case you’ve forgotten The country is a Republic and people are governed. Being ruled by a queen is against what a Republic is or should be.
@Tony Donoghue: You’re an idiot
He really owes apology to FG candidates in Waterford Council election.
@Paul Kelly: why? They stood in for their photo opportunity and sung dumb. None of them challenged him or took him to task. Pity about them.
Who cares
@Mark Mccormack: not the hse
Skumbag
If he spent a little less time doing other ministers work and not being such a camera slut he might have a little time to remember to shut his mouth. Still with a history of being a rent a quote as well what can you expect. Dimwit.
He a disgusting Narcissist.
@Ian James Burgess: nice socks though
Another picture im not happy with, might have to go hard on the journal staff. I am absolutely beautiful, as for the apology, I done so on the advice of my image consultants. But considering the housing crisis idmsnt as big as its made out to be.. Hard to take people serious.
Apology and resign
He made an ass of it
@Ian James Burgess: Couldnt agree more with you Ian ;-)
Stop moaning about them and do something about it
Arsehole
There were more qualifications in that “apology” than the four consultants that made the complaints have together!
Why should he apologise for the actions of senior managemant. He should have sacked the hospital manager for incompetence All he had to do was to hire a mobile mortuary while waiting for new building.
Its about time managers started to manage..
@Jack Creegan: you cant fire public servants .
A vote for FF Fg is a vote for corruption
Why o why
Why are my comments not going up on the comments section??
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