Daly accuses Greens of sell out on hospital Co-location

As Tallaght Hospital prepares to go to tender for a private hospital on its land, Cllr Richard Daly of Fine Gael accuses the Green part of selling out its values in return for inclusion in the government.

“What we are getting now is “a paler shade of Green” as policies become diluted into oblivion in return for the keys of the executive washroom. Core beliefs of equality in the health system and environmental and heritage protection on motorway routes will need a more committed Green party” claimed Cllr Daly.

“Despite the pre-election opposition to the whole notion of co-location the Green party seem to have gone silent as one of the most controversial PD proposals unfolds.

Tallaght is the first of eight hospitals which are to have private hospitals located on their grounds.

The propagation of a two tier health system where private patients have a different hospital to public patients is contrary to the opinion of the majority of this country and is a most exclusive system.

The Green party in its election manifesto promised to “scrap immediately the decision to subsidise building of private hospitals on public land” and to address “Our two-tier health system which discriminates between insured and uninsured patients”

The fact that a party could so blatantly renege on its own manifesto during its first weeks of government can justifiably lead to cynicism towards politicians. We have seen a similar U turn in relation to the routing of the M3 motorway where the Greens seem to have also lost their direction.

As the Green TDs mix their policies with those of Fianna Fail the environmentally focused voter will have to look elsewhere as one after one the “raison d’etre” policies of the party are conceded”.

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