Ciara Kelly
speaker
347 appearances
15 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 Jun
Ciara Kelly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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taking a good look at all of the news, reviews, opinions and comment in the Sunday papers.
And I'm delighted to be joined by my panel this morning.
Louise O'Reilly, Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Fingal West.
Paul Hosford, Deputy Political Editor with the Irish Examiner.
And Pat Rabbit, former Labour Party leader.
You're all very welcome to the studio on this Sunday morning.
I'm going to start with you, Paul, because if we thought that the...
Board of the Rotunda or the leadership within the Rotunda capitulating to the Minister was going to draw a line under this issue about public-private maternity care and the battle with the Minister here over the implementation of these public-only contracts for consultants.
We were wrong.
It's continuing.
As far back as last summer.
Now, she does say within that piece, within that interview with Jennifer Bray, that she's sort of putting the responsibility back over to the clinical directors within the hospital, the people who put forward the rosters or agree the rosters.
She said, I'm asking you to go back and look at these rosters again and change these rosters.
So is that where she's shifting the blame?
Not necessarily saying the consultants don't want to work the weekends.
Is she saying the clinical directors within the hospital don't want to have that battle or just haven't got the mindset yet?
to change the traditional approach to the majority of consultants working shift work, which is during the day.
And is that why the public don't go into the hospitals as much on Saturday and Sunday, do you think?
I want to bring you in, Louise.
I can't imagine a Fine Gael Minister for Health from one of the wealthiest constituencies in the entire country fighting the good fight for public health was on your bingo card for 2026.
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