Monday 5 November 2012

Home Help Yourself

Well of course the majority of clients claimed the service is great, they’re well fed...
Of course they did, why wouldn’t they? They’re not the ones who are dead.
They’re not the ones who can’t complain, they’re not the ones who can’t eat.
And what of the ones who waited in vain for their two veg. and their meat?
Why didn’t the home help come with a meal prepared and cooked?
Maybe the agency thought that these ones were the dead on their books.
I work for free in my home, 24 hours a day. I have to balance the tiniest budget without any breaks or sick-pay.
Private sector employees who struggle for minimum wage in their pocket
don’t get to lie, scheme or juggle and then claim they’re a not-for-profit.
A confidential investigation? Why not just call the guards?
Why send a nurse on this mission, shouldn’t she be working the wards?
Yet more of the same from this Irish isle: Save the banks, save all of the crooks,
save these grave-robbers and all of their kind while we pay to examine their books.

It makes me wonder, meals for the dead.
HSE blunders, their claims of no beds.
Could it simply be that they don’t know the amount
because the investigating nurse is the one who can count?

(Explanation: The HSE has carried out two confidential investigations into not-for-profit organisations. This particular case involved a home help agency that received €1.7m from the HSE to match the amount of people it claimed to be serving, including the dead ones.