Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Obviously, the pay and numbers strategy is going down like a lead balloon with the unions.

I have a final question and it is probably to Ms Ní Sheaghdha. On the public health nurses, this is a very acute issue in CHO 7. I am going to focus in on CHO 7, Clondalkin and Lucan, where there are no public health nurses whatsoever. I asked a parliamentary question recently, and the HSE tried to recruit students into the public health nursing sector and it recruited zero. Why is that? Why is there such a shortage of public health nurses in a community health setting where, you would think, this would be the gold standard with regard to front-line staff?