'You may be the Health Minister, but you're not God': Mater Hospital chair David Begg quits after fracas with Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
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'You may be the Health Minister, but you're not God': Mater Hospital chair David Begg quits after fracas with Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
"Former trade union head resigns after 'extraordinary' bust-up during meeting with minister in July Begg told minister: 'I'm not going to have you summon my staff to the Department for Oval Office-style dressing-downs whenever the mood takes you' The minister gathered her papers and stormed out of the room with her entourage of officials in tow. Scrambling after them down the corridor, apologetic about what had happened in the meeting,"
"takes you' The minister gathered her papers and stormed out of the room with her entourage of officials in tow. Scrambling after them down the corridor, apologetic about what had happened in the meeting, were three senior members of the leadership of the hospital. Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill was involved in an "extraordinary" fracas with David Begg, the chair of the Mater Hospital during a heated meeting this summer."
A former trade union head resigned after an 'extraordinary' bust-up in a July meeting involving Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and David Begg, chair of the Mater Hospital. Begg told the minister: 'I'm not going to have you summon my staff to the Department for Oval Office-style dressing-downs whenever the mood takes you.' The minister gathered her papers and stormed out with an entourage of officials. Three senior hospital leaders scrambled after them down the corridor, apologetic about what had happened in the meeting. The incident was described as an extraordinary fracas during a heated meeting this summer.
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