Texts and emails, Monday 15 February 2010
Topic: Immigrant children in state care
Panellists: Emily Logan (Ombudsman for Children), Nora Gibbons (Barnardos) and Nora Owen (Fine Gael Minister of Justice 1994-1997)
If M. O'Leary cannot get to talk to Mary, why does he not talk to God. Surely there is a mirror in his littie house.
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the question should be asked as to why unaccompanied children were allowed on planes to this country in the first place? Surely questions should be asked of the authories in the countries from where these unaccompanied children departed? This country has enough problem children of its own, without importing them!
David, Westmeath
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michael o leary is a fine one to talk about creating jobs when its a well known fact he does not employ female pilot due to maternity leave. I'd like to know how is he above the law. he has the lowest number of female pilots in all the irish airlines yet he is recruiting the most pilots. This push for hangar six is to push aer lingus out, michael's m.o is to act like a spoilt child to get he's own way.
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is Michael O'leary partly/wholly responsible for d welfare of these "missing" children IF they arrived via Ryanair? Or is Aer Lingus the sole culprits?
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when I saw the bishops on the News kissing the ring on the Pope's willing hand, I thought, has anything changed?
Brian
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the greed for power has gone to the heads of the greens .
Mike, Galway
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What's the point of texting the show. You NEVER read them out!
Paul Kenny, Leixlip
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Who brings these children into Ireland? Where are their parents?
Geraldine
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i am not surprised 400 kids have gone missing. I was a foster parent for almost 3 yrs. Before we gave it due to hse negligence. Is there anyone in confidence we cud talk to other than hse staff.
Jon, Westmeath
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michael o leary is the real entropeneur in ireland, not the posers who go on tv programs for self promotion.
Gerry, Galway
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mary coughlan should be sacked. She is a total disaster in her job. God help the poor workers dependant on some one with a brain.
Peg Ryan
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While the use of hostels and security guards is unacceptable . There is another side in that some who say they are under 18 are not ie the states job to prove they are not. I suggest that some that say they they are children and then leave to join family. I also suggest that those that go missing most likely to be adults in first place. Do such people present a risk to chilren in care? Imagine a 23yo saying 16 living in a childrens home with vunerable children
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How on earth are these kids allowed into ireland without a parent or guardian? Try getting into the us or australia. We are just letting the children in to be lost and then into a criminal system.
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why are these kids not sent back home to be re united with their parents how much is this costing the irish tax payer every year
Sean, Meath
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Children sh not travel without one parent / official guardian who must remain with them.lreland sh not b charity State, convience 4 oders.
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Why are all health exec. Phones turned off at 5 P. M. Difficult to cope with a answering machine when one in stress and Suicidal.. Some things. Never change.
Anne, Kilkenny
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Allowing these minors into our country is ridiculous.
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The HSE is also franchising to private companies the care of elderly people in their homes. They do not check out these carers. My sister was sent a carer who had no English.
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madeline mc cann was 3 years old and was abducted from a bedroom. Your comparison is not a good one.
Anne Kelly, Wexford
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unaccompanied minors live in hostels supervised by people without any care workers present they are not safe even before going to the ground
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The issue of child-trafficking will get worse if Ireland joins the Schengen agreement which abolishes all travel document checks in the Schengen area.
Joe, Wexford
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How come we had no asylum seekers before the celtic tiger ?
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The truth is those children are not missing in Ireland - they are missing from their own country and should be sent home
Ted, Cork
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My 87 year old Mum got fall last week. Broke two bones in her wrist.. Had to go to water ford hospital. When we have kilcreene hospital . Best bone specialists 5 minutes from her home. More of it from H. S. F. Vincent..
Anne Ryan, Kilkenny
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Why were these children let in here without supervision?
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joe former srt worker how come it took micheal o leary 8 months to inform everyone that he was interested in the hanger 6 srt workers have suffered enough without o leary playing mind games and using this situation for his own personal gain
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Who cares about imigrant children when this country is in such trouble
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hi love your show my son was killed 3 and half year's ago which left a lovely grandson who is now 6 he is my life the mum of my grandson is a heroin addick and in jail even thou i am rearing my grandson for the last few year's i have no rith's over him from the day i have my grandson the h s e never met me or my grandson even thou i am trying to get full cusdiy i will get my grandson in court
Catherine Cahill
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how come these so called children are still called children at 16 and 17 and when irish children are 16 they are considered adults when it comes to psychiatry?
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irish parents have to go to the media sometimes to force the state to provide medical care for their seriously ill children we are a great nation for looking after outsiders we dont look after our own at all
Catherine Daly, Cork
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how can we help these children?as a parent i find this horrendious,
Harriett Quinn
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surely the panel realises that the vast majority of the so called unaccompanied minors who go missing are well over the age of 18, in some cases many years
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this is another asylum seeker scam wake up ireland has enough financial problems now without this send these kids back home to their families
Mark, Dublin
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no men on the panel. is it women's lib ? Still its a change tn see you are not arguing with the panel.
Joe, Cork
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as a childminder in donegal the hse have an awful lot to answer to after 5.30 we can not get a social worker
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Aged out sep children have very limited opportunities accessing third level due to our flawed system having possibly been in our 2nd level system for years.
Dr. Tommy Cooke
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Will Mary Coughlan be kissing Michael O'Leary's ring tomorrow.
Alan, Sligo
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is treating the panel as though they are his friends. Not the same show tonight sadly
Ken Fleming
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ryanair are right to refuse to deal with the airport authoriy but in wanting to deal directly with the tanaiste they are trying to take advantage of the mentally challenged!
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maybe mick o leary and george led should set up a new political party.at least they might create a few jobs as they seem 2know whats going on unlike d government.
Margaret
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who the hell elected ur woman from de migrants rigths?
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some people are never happy. d church is trying 2put things right but seems most people just want 2keep putting it down no matter what they do.d wheels of justice turn very slowly and d government and all other authority washed their hands of it all also.
Margaret
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Get real, these people are adults at 18 years of age. No more babysitting at taxpayers expense.
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are wee not bad enough hear without leaving childeren unacompanied this has to stop wee are a soft touch we cant save the world
Joe Kelleher, Cork
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its great to hear all the things that need 2 be done for all those poor children but could u remind the lovely ladys on ur panel that charty begins at home there are alot of our own that have to be looked out for
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Any chance Mary Coughlan could be trafficked out of the country?
Seamus, Clonsilla
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will u ask nora as a former min for justice why the bishops who covered up are not arrested from
Christy
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Kissing a ring denotes obedience. Flock refers to good shepherd image. Please focus on issues rather than the peripherals of language and customs!
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the more of these alien invaders that vanish the bettr.Why wer they let in here unacompanied. We nevr had a refrendum on the greatest issue evr in this countrys 3000 yr histry:the racial rape of our belovd country by our treasonus oireactas to please colonial involvd EU.We owe africa nothin.Let france and othr eu countries who got all the colonial gain now take all the pain.Ireland for the irish.Proud to be Éir-E-AN.
Tom Nee, Longford
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I suppose there's no chance the Tanaiste and countless other junketeers will cancel their usual 5 star st patricks day world tour and just just send letters saying we are available for business if anyone wants to contact us
John McGrath
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Hanger 2 was always used for line maintenance so why do 90 workers now need hanger 6 which is big enough to house 7 airplanes!
Mark
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People bow to the Queen. The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church where all the critics will be carried in when they die as much that they don't agree with it.