Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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This may be a question better targeted at the HSE at the second session this afternoon but I will elicit an opinion from Ms Ní Sheaghdha's own perspective. At this stage, have all the student nurses who will qualify this year been offered full-time positions that are not via agencies? Have other healthcare professionals like physiotherapists, occupational therapists and all those who are coming out of universities this year been offered positions?