Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Unlike Deputy Donnelly, the Minister and I tend to disagree quite a lot but I think we can all agree that there is a recruitment and retention crisis in our health service. I have said this many times. I believe this Government, the previous Government and even the one before that have made our health service a very unattractive place in which to work. We now see that our health service is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for healthcare professionals. This is contributing to the recruitment and retention crisis. It is making it worse because not only do we have unattractive pay, conditions and places in which to work, we now have unsafe places in which to work. My question is very simple. Is the Minister aware of the increase in assaults and will he do anything about it?

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