Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)

Last week the Minister for Health said in this House that the strike by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisations, INMO, and nurses in the Mid-West Regional Hospital was putting patients' lives at risk. Does the Tánaiste concur with these comments? If he does, are there any legislative proposals to remedy the situation and stop the nurses striking?

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