For old times’ sake

Dara Gantly on copied and recycled policy ideas, and when supposedly new health reform is anything but I think it is a sign of old age when you start to recognise ‘new’ initiatives as being re-heated ready-meal versions of failed (for whatever reason) health reform fare served up years before, albeit under the guise of a different presentation. Imagine a dollop of pesto or a parsley and fennel coulis (if external consultants are hired) and you get the idea. I was feeling suitably long in the tooth, and hungry for some meat, when I read in detail the Minister for…