Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

If 62% of the workers use up the majority of their leave and are faced with a choice of taking unpaid leave or leaving their children in a precarious situation and dealing with the stress that goes with doing so, many of those people may consider remaining in their current employment to be unfeasible unless something changes. We need to address this issue or we will be left with a health service that is even more understaffed than is currently the case.