Cllr Anthony Kelly has said that the planned axing of 25,000 public sector jobs by the new Fine Gael/Labour coalition will have an extreme adverse affect on the Irish health system, and will in essence "finish off" whats left of our states health service. The Wexford town Sinn Féin rep has admitted that the new programme for government promises much reform for the health service, but said that he was worried that the exact number of health staff working in the front line that will lose their jobs had yet to be revealed.
"Twenty five thousand public sector workers will be made redundant under the new programme for government," Cllr Kelly said, "How many of them will come from our health service? You cannot make sweeping cuts in the health service without vastly damaging frontline services. Staff shortages are already affecting patient care. I am conscience that Wexford Labour TD Brendan Howlin has called for a better health service for this nation for that past few years. I urge him to be the moral compass for the Fine Gael/Labour coalition now, and to resist any actions that may further damage health services in Ireland. I warn him that if he does not, he and his new government colleagues will have to face an electorate that has already decimated one political giant this year."
"There is still no sign that Fine Gael and Labour will reverse the health cuts imposed by Fianna Fail and the Greens. This new government is tied to the same irresponsible, failed economic policies of the Fianna Fail regime. I hope that they don't run the health service in the same manner."
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