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Replying To Viking66:  "Read that article too. Photos of robots that looked straight out of Star Wars!"
True. In some of their factories or shops they don't even bother turning on lights as there's no humans there.

SouthGalway (Galway) - Posts: 67 - 16/10/2025 13:23:09    2640290

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Replying To Viking66:  "Read that article too. Photos of robots that looked straight out of Star Wars!"
All done in what they call "Dark Buildings" robots don't need lights

cluichethar (Mayo) - Posts: 588 - 16/10/2025 13:26:08    2640292

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Replying To cluichethar:  "What you say is true but are Irish students unable to get into their first choice courses. They say there is a shortage of medical professionals but they limit the amount of space's available in universities to study these professions. It sounds a bit stupid to me."
There's not enough room in hospitals for patients and qualified staff, never mind even more student doctors and nurses!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17248 - 16/10/2025 14:55:36    2640308

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Replying To Viking66:  "We were far from a functional country 15 years ago as regards housing, health and education. We still arent either."
We were a functional country up until the crash round 2008-2009, then the banks had overextended lending into a massive property bubble that popped and we the people had to pay the difference.

We overnight went from being a small Country with €60 billion surplus of cash, to annually having a massive deficit between income and outgoings, a national debt of > €250 billion.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1498 - 16/10/2025 16:08:17    2640318

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Replying To Viking66:  "There's not enough room in hospitals for patients and qualified staff, never mind even more student doctors and nurses!"
Well maybe these FF/FG should do an audit with how many hospital bed we will need on average for the next 30 years and how many staff we need to man those beds, and order the Department of Education to get their fingers out. Its almost as if they don't want to fix things.

Then again, this is the same FF/FG Political team who build the World's most expensive hospital on private land owned by a Convent or Order of nuns, and instead of compulsory purchase, they supposedly opted to pay rent for eternity. They also are responsible for building the worlds most expensive bicycle shed at €365k, which I could have done for a fraction of that price.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1498 - 16/10/2025 16:16:33    2640319

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Replying To Commodore:  "Well maybe these FF/FG should do an audit with how many hospital bed we will need on average for the next 30 years and how many staff we need to man those beds, and order the Department of Education to get their fingers out. Its almost as if they don't want to fix things.

Then again, this is the same FF/FG Political team who build the World's most expensive hospital on private land owned by a Convent or Order of nuns, and instead of compulsory purchase, they supposedly opted to pay rent for eternity. They also are responsible for building the worlds most expensive bicycle shed at €365k, which I could have done for a fraction of that price."
You'd need to recheck some of them false comments.

Seanfan (Roscommon) - Posts: 159 - 16/10/2025 17:03:45    2640323

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Really?

There are a million people already on the Island who don't consider themselves to be Irish after hundreds of years."
Yet most of them considered themselves Irish a century ago. At what point did you consider your ancestors being Irish?

FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 411 - 16/10/2025 19:45:40    2640334

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Replying To Viking66:  "There's not enough room in hospitals for patients and qualified staff, never mind even more student doctors and nurses!"
Well now that's a whole different rabbit hole. That's what I meant by a rich country acting like a rich country.

cluichethar (Mayo) - Posts: 588 - 16/10/2025 19:54:32    2640335

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Replying To Commodore:  "Well maybe these FF/FG should do an audit with how many hospital bed we will need on average for the next 30 years and how many staff we need to man those beds, and order the Department of Education to get their fingers out. Its almost as if they don't want to fix things.

Then again, this is the same FF/FG Political team who build the World's most expensive hospital on private land owned by a Convent or Order of nuns, and instead of compulsory purchase, they supposedly opted to pay rent for eternity. They also are responsible for building the worlds most expensive bicycle shed at €365k, which I could have done for a fraction of that price."
You made me laugh out loud. How in Gods name would they ever know how many hospital beds they will need when they haven't a clue how many people will be in the country.
The Irish Government is reactive not proactive and in been reactive I mean they're about 15 years behind in everything they do.

cluichethar (Mayo) - Posts: 588 - 16/10/2025 19:57:55    2640336

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