Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

My second question is: why there is such a high turnover of nurses in certain hospitals compared with others? In certain hospitals around the country there is a massive turnover of nurses who are not staying within the hospital system. Is this not a clear indication that in some of the hospitals there is a breakdown of management or communications to let the nurses do their job properly? They are also frustrated that they cannot carry out their duty of care. We should look from that point of view at how we can help. If there are clusters of areas where there is a high turnover of nurses in hospitals, we should look at that to see why that is. Is it because the nurses are frustrated that they cannot carry out their duty of care?