Lynch lauding of Reilly a step too far.

To put things in perspective there was a claim that some years ago  a mother of a very sick child was forced to hand over a ring from her finger as security  because the doctor asked to treat  her sick son  didn't believe that he had a medical card ,which would entitle him to free medical attention.He worked for James Reilly's practice in North Dublin.He left some time afterwards.
Despite the media spin , as a  Minister Reilly  did attempt to cut back on carers time for the most severely handicapped people in the State to save money.This was only reversed when the very same people were forced to protest in all their obvious handicaps outside the Dail in the full glare of electronic and print media.Had they lain down passively like the rest of us there is little doubt that the cutbacks would have gone sneakily ahead as another knot on the whip of the austerity programme.
His fans were loud in praise of his achievements in cutting back the numbers in various in house hospital procedures and said so in the debate in the Dail on the no confidence motion .The flip side of this  was revealed the day following the Dail debate when he reason why the in house figures improved became clear,that is because they virtually stopped taking in people to hospitals and over 340,000  out patients were waiting to be seen.Relative to the size of our population is this a Western European record. ?
In any event Kathleen Lynch was fulsome in her praise of her Boss the Minister.I have often wondered at the ability of the former Sinn Fein /Sinn Fein    Workers Party/The Workers Party /Democratic Left/Labour members  to change parties and colors so easily .As many faces as Big Ben some would say.They definitely have morphed from Dark Green to pink to Red.
After her support for the Fine Gael Minister I wonder if she will now morph chameleon like to Blue.She wouldn't be the first Labour minister to so do.
As a footnote I have no sympathy for Fianna Fail on these issues.As far as I am concerned their shameful neglect of Navan Hospital over their years in power ,when they failed for decades to supply clot busting medication there is despicable.Just how many deaths did this cause and just how many people wee left permanently disable as a result will never be known.
I m most firmly of the view that Fianna fail /Greens /Progressive Democrats put this country back forty years and since getting the reins of power this Fine Gael /Labour coalition have regressed us another 15 years.