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FORMER JUNIOR HEALTH minister Róisín Shortall has no shortage of views on James Reilly, the current state of the health service and the state of her former party, Labour.
In an in-depth interview with TheJournal.ie at our offices in Dublin this week, Shortall discussed events in health in the nearly two years since she left the department.
We also asked about the current state of the Labour – a party she has “no plans” to rejoin - whether Eamon Gilmore should have gone sooner and what she thought of that infamous ‘Every Little Hurts’ ad.
Outside of the political game we asked about the latest abortion case and whether she thinks the government needs to repeal the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Act.
We also asked the Dublin North-West TD whether she thinks she’ll ever be a minister again?
Watch the interview above.
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Gilmore needed to sort out jobs for his family and friends first — that takes time, then he retired.
She’s letting loose on the old boys now!
If Roisin Shortarse had all the answers, how come she wasn’t the hecking leader of the Labour party. She complained when O’Reilly put a clinic in his constituency but she thinks it was OK for her to weight the selection process so that her constituency got one. Anyone involves in tender or selection processes know how to get what they want by stacking the deck. I wouldn’t listen to her nonsense.
She can feck off with her minimum price of alcohol campaign.
A woman scorned
Gilmore just was not big enough for the job.
Meow!!! I know she wants to vent, but she comes across as a bitter old cow…
Inflated sense of own worth.
She does go on a bit
Roisin “I single handedly got regeneration in Ballymun” Shorthall. Useless article she is
Did she say that? She was late to that part I can tell ya, although after she joined the regeneration suddenly up sprang the ballymun/whitehall partnership program ha ha
Question one should be why she sat on all this poison for as long as she did.
Well she did resign on a point of principle was she the first Irish minister ever to do so ? Normally they cling on tightly for dear life to the trappings of power…. Ultimately she has been proven right about Reilly
It’s a bit rich of Shortall criticising all her ex colleagues. She was given the job of sorting out Primary Care – what did she do? When the going got rough, she walked off the pitch. Not a team player – she is better off as an independent – sniping from the back benches.
Well she did resign on a point of principle was she the first Irish minister ever to do so ? Normally they cling on tightly for dear life to the trappings of power…. Ultimately she has been proven right about Reilly he was shunted out of health
Gilmore done what for the country and the Irish people, didn’t hear any reply other than what I know he did nothing absolutely nothing. His big mouth fell silent when he got into power, he fudged and back away from fair sensible decisions and got high paying jobs for all his family. Good riddance Gilmore . Fair play to Mrs Shorthall and Mr Broughan for saying no to him in government and turn their backs on him.
Broughan. Another self serving tosser
Excellent, open interview with Róisín. I especially agree on the abortion issue. Too unclear what the line is on this matter. Mothers’ lives need to be seriously contemplated. How can male psychologists tell what a pregnant woman is thinking? Maybe women psychologists should assess the pregnant women until the referendum is put to the people once and for all.
Especially women psychiatrists like Patricia Casey ..
Shorthall: Another collectivist, statist, communist.
As Einstein said “no problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it”.
All of our partied politicians are of the same mindset, ergo they will hasten the entropy of our systems.
Cram Einstein also said you cannot fill the space of divinity, in this case Gilmore brain, Shorthall left his government so she was not the same mind set as gilmore and she is different to him in that she has a conscious.
a bitter little woman who thought she was a cert to get the gig in health.
I find her strangely attractive….
A woman scorned etc etc…….
A lot of latent sexism above posts… and to some ” Journal contributors” Roisn Shorthall has wrong postal address
Good interview. Makes sense to support fixing HSE rather than changeover to another unworkable mammoth. She is waiting for THAT phonecall from Leo. Couldn’t hear the questions, journalist also needs a mike. More politician interviews please.
POT KETTLE BLACK
What she really wanted to say is Gilmore is an arrogant, useless flute & James Reilly is a hairy faced mongo who couldn’t find his arse using both hands and a map !
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