Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The next petition is No. 66 of 2022, “Create a Health Services Student Allowance” in the name of Mr. Joel Rajesh. The petitioner advises that healthcare students in Ireland face

substantial costs when they are on placements at HSE public hospitals. An allowance scheme to help with these costs now exists for student nurses, but does not exist for student doctors, radiographers, dentists, pharmacists or physiotherapists. A universal health services student allowance would relieve a massive financial burden from these students and would make retaining these future graduates within the health service easier. The recommendation is that the correspondence from the Department of Health be forwarded to the petitioner for information. Does anybody have an opinion on that or want a discussion?