Dervla

The overall tenor of the piece was, you know, I suppose there were two basic points.

One is that we have people who have signed contracts.

They have signed contracts.

which would earn them something generally in the region of a quarter of a million euro a year, which I don't begrudge them.

You know, they're highly qualified, should be highly well paid, but they are extremely well paid.

And they're extremely well paid on the basis of, you know, public-only contracts.

This is very similar to if you were to, I presume you signed a contract with RTE to say you're only going to work with RTE, and then you say, no, I want to do some mixers for Newstalk.

You know, it's

Pretty basic stuff, right?

And to have the master of a hospital basically just saying we're not going to honour the contracts and we're not going to follow, although he said he completely agrees with Solange Care, which is a complete template for all the health services in Ireland, right?

Launch care isn't government policy.

It's state policy.

This is every single political party, the eruptus.

This is something which is absolutely at the heart of our democracy, trying to get some kind of universal health care service so that every citizen is treated with the equality that she deserves.

That's the fundamental point.

And to simply say, well, yeah, we completely agree with launch care, but we're not doing what it requires is pretty astonishing.

The second part of this that I was drawing attention to, and I know it's something that's, you know, come up with some of your callers, is safety.

So what's been used here seems to me to be really astonishing, right, is that we have the master of a hospital.

Both of my kids were born in a hospital, so I actually feel, you know, tremendous connection with this.

And my kids were born as, you know, my wife was a public patient, we went through the public system.