Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 December 2013

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary)

10:10 am

Photo of James ReillyJames Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are doing that through the postgraduate training programme. What we are looking at here and what the Deputies were alluding to are specialist grades of nurses. If a paediatric intensive care unit nurse decides to leave the service, we cannot just replace them with a graduate nurse. We have to get a nurse who is trained in that area.

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