When a private company is struggling it needs to cut costs to survive. Government insists that we must regain our competiveness.
Seriously are we thick. Surely the Government should step in and get them to reduce costs. Encourage tourists etc............
Really depends on what the business of the state co. is.Very few private companies have a monoploly on a particular product or service where as the state due to overhead costs or expense of certain lines of business have no choice but to increase costs as sometimes even 38 million would only be a drop in the ocean if things didnt exactly go to plan.
Would it not be better if the state just owned the infrastructure (electricity broadband etc) and allowed private companies to sell these services to the people with the appropriate regulation.
So then we wouldnt have a situation where the semi state ESB owns the electricity grid and sells to companies like Bord gas at inflated prices and the ESB themselves can't drop their prices due to daft competition rules which keep the price inflated in the first place?
Or am i wrong in that assumption? And for Eircom and broadband provision. So the state own the broadband network and then sell to various private companies to provide competition in the market...
Same goes for the airports. Own the building etc and lease to private companies willing to provide best service at best price. again with proper regulation. Just as the authority rents out slots to different airlines.
Or am i wrong in that assumption? same goes for Eircom and broadband provision. So the state own the broadband network and then sell to various private companies to provide competition in the market...
I brought up this very point on the Frontline programme this week, in the discussion on Ireland's energy future.
I think Minister Ryan felt that I was attacking his party, I wasn't, I was attacking the system, we need to be light on our feet in these challenging times.
No, we are not thick but we are being taken for dopes. With the most successful airline leading the idea that if you REDUCE prices you make MORE revenue through increased demand it is beyond my understanding that someone on a €308k salary could not understand elasticity of demand.
In 2009 Noel Dempsey made an announcement that Dublin Bus would increase fares because they were not making enough revenue. Twelve months later they are looking at another 150 or so redundancies. I'm afraid these people only know how to cause death by a thousand cuts.
and also as owners of the infrastructure you could plan for public interest directors on the boards of these private companies to ensure best service for comsumer similiar to what the government have done with the banks (well except in FFs case that has been completely useless)
They are all part of the ESB group, they share the same board of directors, they share the same pension scheme
Why would they wish to sell below cost, the regulator does prevent them from competing on price, while they still have the majority of the market.
Can anyone post what state company / public sector charges have fallen in the last 3 years to help us regain competiveness !!!!
I see that only 8 out of 25 days in March have seen less than 300 patients on trolleys in our hospitals A+E depts, as per the INMO webpage(no counts at the weekends however(??).) Trolley Watch
However am unable to find the page on the HSE website which counts trolley figures....which used to exist!!
I am aware that Minister Reilly announced (at a INMO conference )that the figures collected from the INMO were more accurate in relation to trolley figures....but have the HSE given up collecting the figures at all?????
(I note from the INMO website that they will start to track over crowded wards on April 8th.....this is where all the trolleys are hidden from the SDU BTW... ........SIGH!!)
Interesting, the DoHC only said that they'd be adopting the methodology that's currently being used by the INMO and that those figures being computed by nurses would be validated by both the CNM and by hospital bed managers. They're obviously agreeing that the INMO figures are "accurate", but why wouldn't they when we all know that INMO official stats don't actually count the numbers who are awaiting admission on trolleys in our overspill wards, or those who are being boarded on trolleys on wards. On March 20th there were 399 patients who were officially on trolleys but that didn't seem to attract much attention from the media. For some very odd reason INMO trolleywatch grinds to a complete and utter halt every w/e and on each bank hol w/e. Does anyone know why?
When they say that instances where patients are left waiting on trolleys for more than 24 hours should be treated as a "major clinical incident" what exactly do they mean? Do you follow the same procedure as with other clinical incidents? Does it mean that the risk manager must now conduct an investigation in to each and every serious clinical incident? Is the state claims agency notified as is the case with every other serious clinical incident? Questions, questions, questions.....
Last year I was hospitalised 11 times in 12 months, 7 by ambulance, due to heart condition. I spent between 24 and 39 hours on trollies, both in the A&E and in the corridor outside wards. I was shaggin worse coming home that when I went in. I was told that while I was in the corridor outside the ward I was technically on the ward. It is one of the was one of the ways hiding these figures.
By the way, it took those 11 admittances over these 12 months for the brains called consultants to discover that the medications prescribed for me were not working! Not of course that they gave me the wrong medications!
And the INMO is complicit in hiding the true numbers who are being boarded on trolleys. Nurses should be counting each and every person who's awaiting admission regardless of the environment where they're being boarded.
Agreed 100% but one has to ask the question, who benefits from the lower numbers if the 'total count' is not being properly reported?
Since December 2012 I have not been back except for checkups, medication reduced from 8 pills a day to just 3, an aspirin, lipitor & a water pill. They will never admit how wrong they get it, no matter what.
Nobody should be parked on trolleys in corridors. Even one person makes a shocking statistic! HSE, what an organisation! Reilly is not the man to sort out this disgusting mess. He might be better employed paying off his debts and leave that rudderless ship find its own course. Who knows, it would probably be for the best to let it find its own way.
So much for their policy of open disclosure when things go wrong. Good to hear that you're feeling much better .
It's all about perception, glossy reports and justifying the existence of quango's like the SDU! In 2012 the INMO was accusing hospital managers of doctoring real trolley stat numbers which is kind of ironic when you think about it! You'd really have to wonder what's stopping nurses from compiling those stats and inputting the true figures for the numbers of patients who are on trolleys awaiting admission on to INMO trolley watch ? As for who benefits, reduced stats suggests that the SDU, DoHC and the minister are making inroads and they also make the hospital look good! You'd have to question the longterm inroads made by the equivalent entity up in NI considering they sent 1.200 patients crossborder for treatment last year, with the NHS spending €45m for patients to be treated privately.
Only getting back to this now...(apologies)....never been able to find out who feeds the INMO with their figures from any hospital I have ever worked in.....1st(2nd....3rd) secret of fatima I suppose!!.....
Who will calculate their trolleys parked in every corner of every ward may be easier for me to discover....(one hopes!!)....Me thinks the DOHC will be less willing to have these numbers published????....or maybe not!!
I have to be honest Spidey and admit that i was on a trolley once and did not even know it! I thought it was a bed, and the angle my trolley was at made it look like I was in a ward....mind you, I was pretty unwell at the time and easily fooled
But I did not find it to be this awful experience one hears of. It was only when the nurse said "We'll have you admitted onto the ward soon. We're so sorry" or words to that effect, that I fully understood what was happening.
When I was given a bed I got great treatment. Much better treatment than in a private hospital, which I would rather not name, where I went subsequently with a different ailment, and which, while very, very comfortable, made a bit of a hash of things, including wrong diagnosis....
I was in Castlebar hospital recently with an elderly relative in A&E and it was total, total chaos....the staff absolutely ran off their feet...awful pressure...