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Entries Tagged as 'Department of Health'

Community supports and the HSE budget in 2013

December 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Disability, Irish Politics, Recession

The Department of Health and it’s ministerial team held a press conference after the budget yesterday to talk about the budget and the estimates for health expenditure in 2013.   I am surprised at the lack of  focus on the very serious problems emerging from the Department or indeed being hidden from view. Minister for State with […]

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Organ Donation – When is a donor a donor?

February 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Social Policy

Image via Wikipedia And now for something completely different but very very important. The government are currently holding a public consultation on the matter of organ donation at the moment. There was a conference on it in Dublin today and it got someone in the Civil Service (waves to all Maman Poulet’s gov.ie based readers) […]

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Mary Harney tries to hide another crappy cut that costs buttons

November 5th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Irish Politics

Yesterday afternoon Mary Harney released this from the Department of Health. I heard something during my pre-election nap and knew I was not dreaming. This was a perfect day for dumping bad news but this is news can’t just be dumped. The campaign to vaccinate young woman against HPV was not without it’s flaws as […]

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