Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Contrary to commitments in the programme for Government, we have a crazy situation in County Kerry for young, qualified psychiatric and mental health nurses. They are being told that while the HSE has full-time work for them on qualification, they cannot go to Kerry but must go instead to Dublin. We need psychiatric nurses in our county and I know of plenty opportunities where facilities dealing with people's mental health care desperately need more nurses. However, the HSE says that while it will give them a full-time job, it will not be in Kerry. I want to know why. It does not make sense. If the jobs are there and they are needed on the ground, why are they being told to go to Dublin?

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