Shatter donation is hypocritical
No one doubts that the charity does wonderful things, but charities like it exist because politicians, like Mr Shatter, have not provided a nationwide health system capable of meeting the needs of the Irish people.
Because the taxpayer pays for politicians’ own private health cover, so they never have to experience the Irish public health system.
The money paid to Jack & Jill doesn’t appear by magic. It will be taken from funding for other services, although not from any of the funding set aside for the costs of the political class.
It is claimed to be worth €50,000 to the charity, so maybe the 166 TDs and 60 senators would like to each pay €221.24 to Jack & Jill, instead of it being paid by the taxpayer.
& Mr Shatter is also open to charges of hypocrisy with this new-found commitment to the families who avail of the services offered by Jack & Jill, because he didn’t show much interest in those families when he was sitting around the Cabinet table. The other point, which is possibly more serious, is the administrative incompetence within the Department of the Taoiseach. Weeks after the President, Michael D Higgins, signed a bill into law, the enacting paperwork had not been completed.
You would think that part of the paperwork for signing a bill into law would include legally enacting it and that, immediately after the President had done his part, the documents would be sent back to the relevant minister to be signed within the hour and that all those documents would be signed on the same day.
It begs the question of how many other bills have been signed by the President, but never enacted by the relevant minister?
If the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, and his staff are so incompetent that they can’t even keep track of when bills must be signed into law, what hope is there for the really important things?
Isn’t giving legal effect to legislation pretty much as important as it gets in terms of proper governance?
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