Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 22 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion
Dr. Noreen Lineen-Curtis:
Absolutely, yes. Of course it would. If you want somebody to go and work on an island, it is already difficult to get housing, as we have heard. If you want someone to go and live there and work there and care for the patients in healthcare, he or she has to be accommodated if not already living on the island. We are lucky at the moment in that we have two who live there and have raised their families there, but we will not always have that. We have to have somewhere that is nice for them to live in - basic but nice - and safe for them to work in. Of course what the Deputy suggests would help. I would love to see it happen.
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