Ironic like Alanis
“The irony for me is that last week we had marches on the streets in local communities saying that we dare not touch their cancer services as part of the transformation programme, and this week we face into a Portlaoise situation where we’re being blamed for not having changed it.”
Aside from the crassness of the remark and the boot-boy tactics of blaming the victims, I’m wondering where in the HSE decision-making process that the public has a say? How are we holding up the progress to the promised land? Oh yeah we have marches but where do these have any impact on the machinations of the bureaucracy? Perhaps in the wee small hours, when Professor Drumm feels a tinge of guilt that he might not have fully earned his €80,000 bonus, he can rest assured that the ignorant population brought the misery on themselves despite his valiant efforts. We’re certainly not seeing the impact of people power anywhere else.
Brendan, if you want us to share the blame how about you share some of the bonus? But that wouldn’t be ironic, would it?
Mark Waters marked time at 10:50 pm on November 5th, 2007 .
