Stuff that grinds your gears

[Meridian]

Our taxes paid for their education:

Nearly 7,000 Irish medical professionals are now registered to work in Australia, sparking concerns about the impact on the Irish health service as the number seeking a better working life down under has risen by 86pc in six years.

New figures from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) show that 6,959 Irish medical professionals were registered in Australia last year, including dentists, midwives, pharmacists and psychologists.

This has jumped from 3,735 Irish healthcare workers registered there in 2019.

Surgeon Dr Elizabeth Concannon, originally from Salthill, Co Galway, moved to Australia in 2020 to pursue her training speciality after completing her plastic surgery training in Ireland. She said the increase in Irish healthcare staff registering in Australia is “shocking”.

“The medical training in Ireland is excellent and it’s sad they are bleeding so much expertise abroad. As more hurdles are being removed in other countries around having qualifications recognised, that’s only going to continue,” she said.

Dr Concannon has a two-year-old son, but she said the decision to stay happened before he was born in Australia.

“The more senior you get in Australia the more control you have over your hours. I didn’t see many role models in Ireland of consultants who seemed to have a good work/life balance; they seem to be perpetually under the pump.

“I would have earned a good living whether it was in Ireland or Australia, and I think the main difference for me here is lifestyle and the option of flexibility.”

 

[fed up]

Our taxes paid for their education:

Nearly 7,000 Irish medical professionals are now registered to work in Australia, sparking concerns about the impact on the Irish health service as the number seeking a better working life down under has risen by 86pc in six years.

New figures from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) show that 6,959 Irish medical professionals were registered in Australia last year, including dentists, midwives, pharmacists and psychologists.

This has jumped from 3,735 Irish healthcare workers registered there in 2019.

Surgeon Dr Elizabeth Concannon, originally from Salthill, Co Galway, moved to Australia in 2020 to pursue her training speciality after completing her plastic surgery training in Ireland. She said the increase in Irish healthcare staff registering in Australia is “shocking”.

“The medical training in Ireland is excellent and it’s sad they are bleeding so much expertise abroad. As more hurdles are being removed in other countries around having qualifications recognised, that’s only going to continue,” she said.

Dr Concannon has a two-year-old son, but she said the decision to stay happened before he was born in Australia.

“The more senior you get in Australia the more control you have over your hours. I didn’t see many role models in Ireland of consultants who seemed to have a good work/life balance; they seem to be perpetually under the pump.

“I would have earned a good living whether it was in Ireland or Australia, and I think the main difference for me here is lifestyle and the option of flexibility.”

It's not just a better work life young people are seeking by going abroad, it's for an independent life.

Thanks to your lot of self serving, fall in line, kowtowing twats, some of us have to wave goodbye to our children as they leave because they can't afford to buy or rent property here.

 

[Meridian]

It's not just a better work life young people are seeking by going abroad, it's for an independent life.

Thanks to your lot of self serving, fall in line, kowtowing twats, some of us have to wave goodbye to our children as they leave because they can't afford to buy or rent property here.

You mean to say that there is like a property paradise in Australia?

Utopia is it ?

I firmly believe that kids college education expenses, as subsidised by the state, should only be done with the understanding that those same kids are going to stay working and contributing to this state for a period of 5 years after they finish their education.
If they don't want to stay here, then they repay what it costed the tax payers to educate them.

 

[Debanks]

You mean to say that there is like a property paradise in Australia?

Utopia is it ?

I firmly believe that kids college education expenses, as subsidised by the state, should only be done with the understanding that those same kids are going to stay working and contributing to this state for a period of 5 years after they finish their education.
If they don't want to stay here, then they repay what it costed the tax payers to educate them.

Would that be seen as penalising kids educated here,whilst wecoming the many foreign educated medical/other professional personnel to work in this country

 

[Orchard thief]

It's not just a better work life young people are seeking by going abroad, it's for an independent life.

Thanks to your lot of self serving, fall in line, kowtowing twats, some of us have to wave goodbye to our children as they leave because they can't afford to buy or rent property here.

Yeah i’ve a buddy in Sydney living in a penthouse apartment and he bought it for 3 koala bears and a crocodile dundee dvd.

 

[King Silkbeard]

The way the news is reported really bugs me, all the news channels like RTÉ & Channel 4 have a wave of crime reports on all sorts of nasty things that are happening, really disturbing shit, I don't find that interesting at all there should be a special crime section on news channels that show all that, like sport is separated from news and weather separate again. When I am on the Internet I look up news from around the world about good topics and they are way more interesting and informing.

 

[Hoggys White Helmet]

Our taxes paid for their education:

Nearly 7,000 Irish medical professionals are now registered to work in Australia, sparking concerns about the impact on the Irish health service as the number seeking a better working life down under has risen by 86pc in six years.

New figures from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) show that 6,959 Irish medical professionals were registered in Australia last year, including dentists, midwives, pharmacists and psychologists.

This has jumped from 3,735 Irish healthcare workers registered there in 2019.

Surgeon Dr Elizabeth Concannon, originally from Salthill, Co Galway, moved to Australia in 2020 to pursue her training speciality after completing her plastic surgery training in Ireland. She said the increase in Irish healthcare staff registering in Australia is “shocking”.

“The medical training in Ireland is excellent and it’s sad they are bleeding so much expertise abroad. As more hurdles are being removed in other countries around having qualifications recognised, that’s only going to continue,” she said.

Dr Concannon has a two-year-old son, but she said the decision to stay happened before he was born in Australia.

“The more senior you get in Australia the more control you have over your hours. I didn’t see many role models in Ireland of consultants who seemed to have a good work/life balance; they seem to be perpetually under the pump.

“I would have earned a good living whether it was in Ireland or Australia, and I think the main difference for me here is lifestyle and the option of flexibility.”

Luckily for us these were able to find places to buy and rent here.

National Healthcare Statistics 2024

www.gov.ie

 

[The High King]

You mean to say that there is like a property paradise in Australia?

Utopia is it ?

I firmly believe that kids college education expenses, as subsidised by the state, should only be done with the understanding that those same kids are going to stay working and contributing to this state for a period of 5 years after they finish their education.
If they don't want to stay here, then they repay what it costed the tax payers to educate them.

Nonsense. If we want our graduates to stay and not go to Australia we need to offer the same job benefits, conditions and salaries they do there. We aren't prepared to do that. It's easier to keep the shit work conditions and import the skilled labor from India etc who are happy to put up with it in turn for work visas and a new life in Ireland.

 

[MrFrisp]

Disposable income for Cork people averages more than €30k

Disposable income is the amount of money left for an individual to spend after receiving social benefits and paying tax and social charges.

www.echolive.ie

WTF like.. How can you have €30k disposable income, when you don't have anywhere near that income?

How fuckin much are people earning these days like? Christ almighty.

 

[Clairecarebear]

Nonsense. If we want our graduates to stay and not go to Australia we need to offer the same job benefits, conditions and salaries they do there. We aren't prepared to do that. It's easier to keep the shit work conditions and import the skilled labor from India etc who are happy to put up with it in turn for work visas and a new life in Ireland.

We seem to be slow in moving from measuring how hard people work and what "value" they bring to an organisation based on the hours they work rather than what they achieve or contribute.

Within the families, couples etc I work with, a common theme is how difficult it is to achieve a work/life balance from employers. My kids both have friends in Australia who say they have a great life in terms of being able to work hard but enjoy the benefits of that work.