Health ministry: A poisoned chalice?

FOR A flavour of how the general public ranks our health minister, log onto popular health consumer website irishhealth.com
An online poll conducted by the website in March asking respondents to grade James Reilly’s performance during his first three years in the job recorded a resounding thumbs down. Seven in 10 rated him “poor”. A miserable 4% considered him “very good”. The bulk of the remainder rated him “average”.