Sandra McLellan (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the delegates and thank them for their presentation. When one sees it all presented in this way it is very shocking. I want to make one point regarding the shortage of doctors and particularly nurses. I find this hard to understand that there is such a shortage of nurses when nurses are emigrating to find work. I know nurses who could not get employment here. I find it difficult to get my head around that

I have only one question to put to the delegates. In terms of A Vision for Change, is the situation getting better, standing still or is it getting worse? When people come to my clinic, as they would call to other members' clinic, I find I am getting stressed trying to access services on their behalf. I can only imagine what that does to the people who suffer from mental illnesses.