Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Page 118 of the programme for Government contains a commitment to invest €15 million in island communities. Bere Island off Castletownbere has over 200 permanent residents and is visited by many more holidaymakers. A permanent, registered HSE general nurse has been working on the island, but in recent times this nurse has been taken from the island to the mainland on various days to cover planned and unplanned leave by colleagues.

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