Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Tá ceist amháin agam faoi seirbhísí sláinte. The programme for Government commits the Government to providing additional funding to rebuild the health service, including through providing additional front-line staff. The Taoiseach may be aware that there was a protest outside involving nurses who were protesting against the decision by the Government that denied incremental credit for nurses and midwives who had graduated between 2011 and 2015. This is most unfair to those involved who are mostly young. It is unacceptable and short-sighted. Many of them will be forced to take their expertise across the globe. This will have another knock-on adverse impact on the health service which is struggling to retain nurses and midwives. Will the Government fully honour the agreement made with the INMO, the PNA and SIPTU to restore incremental credit for these graduates and end the pay discrimination?

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