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A TD HAS called on the HSE to immediately clarify what contingency measures are in place for transporting transplant patients.
This is after a confidential report from the chief executive of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin to the board of directors said that current travel arrangements are “unsustainable”.
The report – which was seen by Sinn Féin TD Louise O’Reilly and RTÉ’s This Week programme – expresses serious concerns about the viability of travel arrangements for organ donor patients.
According to RTÉ, the report points to staffing difficulties with pilots and air traffic controllers as a reason for delayed transport times for patients.
It states that the HSE’s National Aeromedical Command Centre (NACC) (which is run by the National Ambulance Service) notified the hospital that staffing difficulties meant “transport of and transport timelines for Priority 1 children called for heart and liver transplants to the UK could not be guaranteed over the Christmas holiday period”.
O’Reilly has now called on the HSE to outline what contingency measures are in place for children who are in high priority need for an organ transplant
“This is very worrying and the HSE need to outline in detail what contingency arrangements are in place for children who are priority 1 on the transplant list,” she said.
These desperately ill children and their families need clarity from the HSE about what arrangements are in place.
In a statement to This Week, the HSE said it was “aware of pilot and air traffic personnel issues within the Irish Air Corps regarding the aeromedical services for paediatric organ transplant patients. Consequently, the availability of fixed wing aircraft for such transfers has recently been reduced”.
It also said it has “engaged with the Irish Coast Guard and private air ambulance providers in an effort to ensure that contingency arrangements are in place. These services will be utilised when needed and as available”.
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Love the climate change argument – however another possibility is that due to deforestation of their natural habitat the reindeer can’t get access to the moss and lichen they need (apparently it takes 150years for a forest to mature sufficiently to satisfy the reindeers diet). How do I know that? Well I was in lapland last week where we met the reindeer and spoke with a reindeer farmer. Apparently they didn’t need to feed them in the summer before but now because of deforestation they do.
@decso: Whilst wind and solar are good, bio energy using wood sold as green energy is not green at all but is leading to mass deforestation in Europe and US and is increasing not decreasing emissions. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/24/protected-forests-in-europe-felled-to-meet-eu-renewable-targets-report?CMP=share_btn_tw
Here at Pilon Manor we find that turf and wood work magnificently in our stoves.Not as good as wood and coal but coal has gone too expensive due to green taxes and is now beyond the reach of us pensioners
In general you’d be right decso – but not in this case as there are no trees there in any case. Also, the reindeer there are an island sub-species which are dwarfs, so a loss of 12% body mass is potentially even more serious..?
@Desco if the science has failed to convince you what would it take, Deckchair weather at the North Pole ?
And yet people still deny climate change. Can I exchange this human ticket for a better one?
@Adrian Matthews:Pat Hickey is flying home for the x-mas,he’ll sort out a ticket(s) for you,no better man.
@Juan Franc: Nah, I’ve already have a one way ticket to hell and back. I’m grand
@Adrian Matthews: No you cannot. You need to explain to us why the Roman and Medieval warm periods where removed from the climate models to make it look like it is warming now for the first time.
We’ve got a reindeer in our house and he’s only about 6 inches tall.
@Damocles: Is it’s name Jo Br***on ? Or Blobby ? ;-)
The Reindeer’s are gett’n smaller, the polar caps are melting, there’s funny birds landing were they shouldn’t..there’s floods, famines and feck up’s all over the place, but all I want for christmas is ………. an Xbox One , an IPhone 7, and a picture of Ursula Halligan ! ! ! ..YEEEE HAAAA
Its so they can fit down chimneys easier.
@Sean Buckley: Do they work as well as geese for chimney cleaning? Never tried one but always willing to try something new.
No mention of there being too many of them ?
Yeah over population is the biggest factor. There’s only so much lichen that can grow in Svalbard in the short summer. People probably stopped hunting or culling them a few years ago.
Da what will I put down for your occupation on the school form ….. Reindeer measurer son !
@David Carino: Oh look Da, Mack got 8 red thumbs for suggesting that there were too many reindear while jack got 8 green ones for saying the same thing. The sceantists are at it again.
Its amazing their own report contradicts the global warming claim. Increase in population!
Those interested in the science and history of climate in Europe and Ireland without the political and financial interference of the AGW scam might like to read first from The German Historical Museum http://www.dhm.de/en/blog/articles/post/2016/12/05/the-year-without-a-summer-how-europe-descended-into-climate-chaos.html and the on the same episode from the Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/a-volcanic-eruption-with-global-repercussions-an-irishman-s-diary-on-1816-the-year-without-a-summer-1.2760797
And yet thhe higher ups gave an american hunter licence to shoot our own in Kerry? Some progressive steps we are taking here.
@Paul Cunningham: We have reindear? When did this happen, is it due to gerbil worming ?
@Paul Cunningham:
It wasn’t the ‘higher-ups’, it was some local gombeen chancing his arm to fleece an ignorant tourist.
1) Hydrogen condensed from the big bang, formed lumps due to imperfect gravitational dispersal.
2) Carbon created in the bowels of dying stars
3) Oxygen formed in the same way as Carbon.
4) Hydrogen joins with Oxygen to form water.
5) Plants grow from carbon in the soil and co2 in the air, using water and trace elements. Changes co2 to Oxygen.
6) Deer eat plants, fix carbon, fart methane inhale Oxygen and exhale co2 which is absorbed by plants.
7) The Journal.ie says co2 is making the deer smaller.
8) Deer say their population is increasing and they don’t have enough plants such as grass.
9) Need to shoot a few now and then and have a feast of venison.
10) Eco-worriers need to get a life, Trump won’t wear such a ridiculous theory any more
Population increase sounds like a more accurate explanation for lower weight. More animals less food, less weight.
Oh dear!
We should airdrop them some food
In less than 10 days it will be midwinter as the North and South poles move to a position of polar noon and polar midnight within an annual cycle. They have already experienced 3 months of constant sunlight at the South pole when the Sun came into view at the September Equinox ( polar dawn) and will remain in view until the March Equinox (polar sunset).
What happens is that as the Earth travels through space it turns once separate to daily rotation so that the North and South poles act like a beacon or a window into the fact that the entire surface turns once as a function of the orbital motion of the Earth. The Earth or the Arctic doesn’t tilt towards and away from the Sun as the old explanations have it but rather the planet has two separate rotations corresponding to the planet’s two distinct day/night cycles. Where these two cycles combine at our latitudes we call it the seasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFrP6QfbC2g&t=8s
Concentrating on the Antarctic continent as it turns across the fully illuminated face of the planet helps readers appreciate what actually causes such things as Arctic sea ice to form and disappear as it is something new to look at. Those who are only interest in the doom laden agenda of global warming/ climate change are unlikely to enjoy what can be now seen through modern satellite imaging.
December 31st last year, the North Pole, despite being in complete darkness for months, experienced temperatures above 0C. Explain.
@Elma Phudd: “the Skate found open water both in the summer and following winter. We surfaced near the North Pole in the winter through thin ice less than 2 feet thick. The ice moves from Alaska to Iceland and the wind and tides causes open water as the ice breaks up. The Ice at the polar ice cap is an average of 6-8 feet thick, but with the wind and tides the ice will crack and open into large polynyas (areas of open water), these areas will refreeze over with thin ice. We had sonar equipment that would find these open or thin areas to come up through, thus limiting any damage to the submarine. The ice would also close in and cover these areas crushing together making large ice ridges both above and below the water. We came up through a very large opening in 1958 that was 1/2 mile long and 200 yards wide. The wind came up and closed the opening within 2 hours. On both trips we were able to find open water. We were not able to surface through ice thicker than 3 feet.”
@Elma Phudd
Maybe only underage children read the Journal and post comments however for those who value their intelligence and the ability to reason they can enjoy something more suited to adults in the form of the new explanation for the seasons and what happens in the Arctic region each year. Instead of saying the Earth tilts towards and away from the Sun, the new explanation splits the planet’s two distinct day/night cycles apart by cause , in this case dual rotations to the Sun, and then combines them as we experience them as the seasons. Put it down as a thinking person’s approach to the terrestrial science of temperatures and that the two distinct rotations can be seen makes it a challenge for those who can appreciate something better than the nonsense taking the name of planetary climate.
It is basically the middle of the day or polar noon at the South pole while it is polar midnight and almost midwinter in our hemisphere and it would be nice if a few responsible adults managed to appreciate the two great planetary cycles, one daily and one annual, that makes their existence possible.
@MackPilon: http://navsource.org/archives/08/575/0857824.jpg
USS Skate at the North Pole
http://navsource.org/archives/08/575/0857858.jpg
Skate and Seadragon at the North Pole
Ice melts, ice breaks up and gets blown out through the Fram Strait as everyone knows, nothing new.
@Gerald Kelleher:
Your “two day/night cycles” argument is just a nice alternative way of visualising how the Earth simultaneously spins on it’s own axis and is tilted on it’s yearly orbit round the sun, which as we all know explains why we have day and night and annual seasons, but WTF does that have to do with climate change?
@MackPilon:
I guess you’ve trumped all the hard data gathered by thousands of polar scientists (which clearly indicates that arctic sea ice is diminishing) by pointing out that a submarine found a patch of ice that was only 2ft thick in 1958…..
@Avina Laaf:
I did say I was looking for people who value their intelligence hence there is no need to place quotations marks around the planet’s two distinct day/night cycles. The Earth turns once each weekday and generates the day/night cycle where the Sun comes into view at dawn and disappears at twilight. The Earth also has a polar day/night cycle where the Sun comes into view at the Equinox, stays in view for 6 months and then is absent from view for 6 months a the opposite Equinox.
In short, when daily rotation is subtracted, the planet turns once to the Sun as a function of the Earth’s orbital motion and this is best appreciated at the Arctic and Antarctic regions where the polar day/night cycle and its effects, including Arctic sea ice evolution , are in response to the orbital surface rotation.
Don’t worry son, it is not for everyone but for those who can interpret 21st century imaging correctly and especially concentrating on the dual rotations of the Antarctic continent across the fully illuminated face of the Earth they will arrive at a sensible conclusion -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFrP6QfbC2g&t=12s
If you have any questions then let me know but I haven’t even discussed planetary climate for all planets and what is the common feature that defines what type of climate each planet has.
@Gerald Kelleher:
At the risk of repeating myself, you describing the seasons as an annual day/night cycle is nothing more than an alternative description of how the Earth on a tilted axis orbits the sun. Astronomers have known about this for centuries so I’m not sure why you’re posting it here as if it’s something new, especially as it has nothing whatsoever to do with climate change.
@Avina Laaf:
It is fine son, sometimes people just don’t get the idea that the Earth rotates to the Sun in two separate ways but unfortunately astronomy and its links to terrestrial sciences has been so corrupt that even something as new that few or even nobody realizes what is being done using 21st century imaging. Copernicus didn’t fear the Church, he feared that those who encountered his work didn’t have a delicate turn of mind to work through the principles and likewise here the same applies -
“Therefore I debated with myself for a long time whether to publish the volume which I wrote to prove the earth’s motion or rather to follow the example of the Pythagoreans and certain others, who used to transmit philosophy’s secrets only to kinsmen and friends, not in writing but by word of mouth, as is shown by Lysis’ letter to Hipparchus. And they did so, it seems to me, not, as some suppose, because they were in some way jealous about their teachings, which would be spread around; on the contrary, they wanted the very beautiful thoughts attained by great men of deep devotion not to be ridiculed by those who are reluctant to exert themselves vigorously in any literary pursuit unless it is lucrative; or if they are stimulated to the nonacquisitive study of philosophy by the exhortation and example of others, yet because of their dullness of mind they play the same part among philosophers as drones among bees. When I weighed these considerations, the scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken” Copernicus
To dumb it down for you, you are a packaged product with predictable notions so anything original is not going to register but it is not your fault, it is just the way you have been moved through the system. Unless you want to make a nuisance of yourself I suggest you remain at a level where you are best suited.
All planets possess a climate however to understand what the common features are means dealing with such things as fixed inclination as the major factor. This is not going to happen with the notion that the Earth tilts towards and away from the Sun as a means to explain the seasons when two separate rotations are need to accomplish that objective.
@Gerald Kelleher:
“To dumb it down for you, you are a packaged product with predictable notions so anything original is not going to register but it is not your fault, it is just the way you have been moved through the system.”
That’s the whole point Gerald – you haven’t posted anything original, you’ve merely repackaged what astronomers have known for centuries, although apparently you’re not smart enough to realise it.
@Avina Laaf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFrP6QfbC2g&t=12s
It is like wonderful music – anyone can appreciate it however some can pick up on the nuances of what is being done. In this case the polar day/night cycle uses a separate rotation to account for the appearance of the Sun at one Equinox, its disappearance at the opposite Equinox and polar noon and midnight midway between these events. It is when this rotation combines with daily rotation that we get the seasons at lower latitudes thereby displacing the old and inaccurate notion that the Earth tilts towards and away from the Sun.
Planetary climate is determined within a spectrum between Equatorial and Polar so that it is easy enough, at least with familiarity, to gauge what type of climate the Earth has in comparison to the other planets like Venus,Jupiter and Saturn using common traits to make that call. It would only make sense to those who can come back to basics and understand the dynamics why the temperatures at their location rise and fall both daily and annually.
If you understand that two rotations are responsible for the planet’s two distinct day/night cycles then congratulations as you are among the first to see something new, something productive and creative.
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