Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update
Annie Hoey (Labour) | Oireachtas source
I would appreciate an answer on, particularly, how we have 18 to 20 students being paid a healthcare assistant's rate.
It is being done through a Government-sponsored scheme. I am interested in hearing how that tallies with the EU directive and how the arrangement does not work There needs to be a conversation. We need only listen to some of the points made, including here today, on why graduates are leaving. It is all well and good for us to have the best education system in the world but if all our students are skedaddling out the door, we are not benefiting from it. We keep going around in circles. As I have said previously, it is just a bad business decision. Maybe we need to-----
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