Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask Ms Ní Sheaghdha about advanced nurse practitioners. There was brief reference to it in her opening statement but not a great deal. My question has three parts. What is the status of the 2% target of advanced nurse practitioners? We were just talking about public health nursing and how we can optimise that through postgraduate qualifications, bursaries and more local access to those types of courses. Are those things a factor in reaching that 2% target? How is the creation of nurse practitioner posts impacted by the Covid crisis?