The Mercury - Eskleigh Comment

“I despair with what is happening at state level with funding decisions.At a time when our health system is crying out for funds, Premier Lara Giddings is quite happy to throw bucket loads of taxpayer money at football, motorsport and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery ($30M).This week Premier Giddings, refused to even meet to talk with the Chairman of Eskleigh Foundation about her refusal to give Eskleigh the vital $123,000 it needs to keep its nursing home for disabled people, full. Three beds are empty, and their is a long queue of patients occupying acute hospital beds, desperately waiting to transfer to Eskleigh. The savings to the hospitals budget is a staggering $1,621,000.Eskleigh has been working across this state for over 60 years, caring and accommodating adults with disabilities. Eskleigh is a charitable not-for-profit organisation that the Premier is accusing of pocketting profits at the expense of the taxpayer.PROFITS?Who pays for buildings Premier? Not your government!What's the problem Premier.This decision is a no-brainer.Whilst Minister O'Connor is defending stupid arguments about her unpaid personal parking fines, the State is going to ruin.I join the many voices for the State to FUND ESKLEIGH FIRST.” ... Posted by: Lorenzo Ion of Hobart 10:17am today

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