Our citizens are not charity cases - they have a right to care services

I’M still seething, nearly a week later.

Last Monday’s Primetime Investigates programme showed the desperate situation facing a number of families facing terrible consequences as a result of the failure of our health and care services to provide adequately for their needs.

Some of the stories told would move any Irish citizen to tears of anger and shame. (You’d be much more impressed, as the week went on, to discover that our Taoiseach had been emotionally affected by the programme, rather than discovering that he cried every time he watched Riverdance.)