Mary Harney: Death is no Relief
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Stop plugging for your own website and write an article here, why don’t you?
Missing the point Tom? And where is the “plug”?
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Look what Harney is proposing is a fairer system than what was their already and operated by successive govts don’t forget a Labour minister Brendan Corish introduced the nursing-home charges in the first place glass houses and stones etc.
I wasn’t seeing anything except a link to your site, and then the name of your site with a link. Seems okay now. Apologies.
In Toronto they do the same with property taxes - old people can defer them and it’s taken out of the estate.
http://www.toronto.ca/taxes/tax_relief.htm
I would have no problem with this if I thought that it was needed and would be wisely spent. However this 15% death tax will simply add to the billions already pumped into the health black hole. I suspect a large chunk of this new tax will actually be spent on benchmarking the pay (but not the conditions) of thousands of time wasters in the HSE. It will also be thrown at IT systems that do not work and are no closer to being introduced today than they were 2 years ago. The HSE is moral corruption on a massive scale.
In the last couple of years we have had a 15% death tax a 2% health levy a 6% increase on health insurance. Well before we have any more taxes to fund Spanish holidays and 07 reg cars for HSE pencil pushers I want to know how many Health board civil servants lost their jobs in cost cutting for the “streamlined HSE”? Not a single one of the wasters.
Oh and by the way will the for sale sign go up on the house while the family are at the funeral or will they be given a couple of days to pack their bags and find alternative accommodation.
Cf - There have been 480 extra employed since the HBs became HSE and there are managers stepping about with no real position or responsibility but still getting top pay. Even with that the HSE has to employ ‘expert’ after ‘expert’ and ‘consultant’ after ‘consultant’ to do the work for them as they do not have the capability. Madness and we can do nothing about it except write to sites like this. Re. death tax for nursing home - surely parents will sign over their possessions before they enter the nursing home and will have no assets to pay the 15%?