{"id":370,"date":"2012-02-15T23:15:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-challenges-taoiseachs-contradictions-on-nursing-home-facilities\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T23:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:15:43","slug":"crowe-challenges-taoiseachs-contradictions-on-nursing-home-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-challenges-taoiseachs-contradictions-on-nursing-home-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe challenges Taoiseach&#8217;s contradictions on nursing home facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Crowe challenges Taoiseach&#8217;s contradictions on nursing home facilities <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has branded the Government&#8217;s approach  to the provision of community nursing home facilities as duplicitous  and contradictory in light of comments made by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe made the claim after Enda Kenny responded to Leader&#8217;s  Questions from Sinn F\u00e9in President Gerry Adams regarding the launch of  the HSE Dublin North East Service Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn response to questions from my colleague, Gerry Adams, regarding  the devastating impact of cuts prescribed in the HSE Service Plan for  care of the elderly, the Taoiseach suggested that buildings of a certain  age would be inappropriate for housing nursing home facilities. The  Taoiseach asked the question, \u2018In 2012, is it right to continue to  provide services in a listed building that is 150 years old and beyond  the planning conditions for development in many cases?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis throw-away comment completely flies in the face of the  Taoiseach&#8217;s own approach, as head of Government, in my own constituency.  There we have seen, in the case of St. Brigid&#8217;s Hospital in Crooksling,  the exact opposite proposed, with staff and elderly residents destined  for an antiquated two-storey, listed building in Inchicore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taoiseach cannot have it both ways. The contradictions are  obvious. This whole sorry saga seems to be a clear case of the  Taoiseach, the Minister, the Government and the HSE being content to  force through the closure of vital community nursing home facilities in  spite of, not only the wishes of the residents and local community, but  of all evidence. This is completely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe challenges Taoiseach&#8217;s contradictions on nursing home facilities Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has branded the Government&#8217;s approach to the provision of community nursing home facilities as duplicitous and contradictory in light of comments made by Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Deputy Crowe made the claim after Enda Kenny responded to Leader&#8217;s Questions from Sinn F\u00e9in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}