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HSE: 151 young people in social service orbit died since 2000
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Friday evening. Bank holiday weekend. What better time for a document dump?
We are now much closer to the “nearly 200″ figure for deaths of young people in some form of care/interaction that initially circulated in the media. Not least because the 151 doesn’t include the earlier 37. Apparently the post-18 years of age transition out of care was the weak point. The 151 are in turn broken down into “natural causes” (67) and “unnatural causes” (84). I’m not sure how young people die of natural causes so more information is needed there (e.g. did they get the right treatment). But the unnaturral causes — suicide, drugs, accidents, and homicide (10) — no doubt have their individual tragic stories behind them. Which HSE lawyers won’t share with another part of the government. Like how Anglo won’t share all its e-mails with the Director of Corporate Enforcement. In a few years time when RTE is doing the retrospective documentary about this era, it should be called Law and Disorder.
RTE seems to have an endless supply of sideshows to distract our attention from those who are still robbing us blind.
Suicides, drugs, accidents, and homicides have always been with us and these things are evidently getting worse. What do RTE do? Pick on a sideshow from the past in order to distract our attention from what is going on in the health service and give the impression that we should get away from the “bad old days” giving us the impression that we will get a great health service if it is taken out of government hands and by default give it to those who are now finding it less profitable to operate in America.
Pick on a sideshow from the past in order to distract our attention from what is going on in the health service and give the impression that we should get away from the “bad old days” giving us the impression that we will get a great health service if it is taken out of government hands and by default give it to those who are now finding it less profitable to operate in America.
The irony, of course, is that ‘privatisation’ is exactly what a PD like Harney wants – and presumably her toadie appointees on the HSE board, too.
Does the report use the term homicide? Not nitpicking, just wondering. I’ve always thought that the Israeli use of the term “homicide bomber” was a play to Americans on account of the fact the term was used outside of the US. Do we actually use the term?