Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly: Stratospheric levels of self-confidence are required to stride into the hottest job in Government mid-pandemic, with no ministerial experience of any kind and both your secretary general and chief medical officer vanishing out the door. Photograph: Julien Behal
If Stephen Donnelly is fond of marking anniversaries, he surely raised a glass on Sunday. Four years in Fianna Fáil. Many words of sympathetic coverage in a Sunday newspaper suggesting caddish attempts by colleagues to undermine him. Four years since he abandoned the Social Democrats –the party he co-founded – to become an Independent again, then to join the party which he had catapulted tons of excrement at since his election as an Independent in 2011.
As a simple Fianna Fáil TD in February 2017, he had only his constituents to worry about and used his Sunday newspaper column to explain why he was now on his fourth iteration as a TD in six years. Responders were mean. That evening he tweeted : “Kids are sick, Scotland won, and everybody hates me. Not gonna lie, I’ve had better weekends.”
state of that anemic thing
SACK Immediately..!!!
Before covid health was a nightmare every year it ran over budget..compo pay off for incompudence and botched up scans ..now they will blame covid ..but the real agenda is climate..pump billion s into a virus because we must all change..
Yes!
Has there ever been a successful Minister of Health?To be fair, the vaccination programme has been very efficient, once supply increased.
He’s 12 months in what has been referred in past as a nightmare department. It’s now an unprecedented time Health. Who in current govt would be better?
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If you have to ask.
Stephen donnelly is out of his depth in a paddling pool ....as are all of ff
I would have to agree Kathy
Definitely
Totally, hasn't a clue, and we need the best minister for health that we can get!
Well, DonnellyStephen few years later I'm still a criminal for trying to get my cannabis even tho it helps me be me, I since quit but I'm still addicted to bacci at least I feel better for not supporting gangs but at least cannabis helped me ditch it for a while legaliseweed
He hasn't got a clue what he does and why he is not sacked is disgraceful... Does he even know what country he is in never mind what department he is supposed to be running.