Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Reference was made to doubling the nurses working in GP practices. If we decide to double the numbers of nurses in GP practices, it must be noted there is a challenge at the moment in getting nurses.

It is obviously something I am very much in favour of because there is a lot of work that GPs are doing that nurses are really well trained to do. The problem is that we may end up taking nurses out of the hospitals or nursing homes, causing further problems and shortages as a result. How can that challenge be dealt with?