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

-----and trying to deny them their right to have time off during the Christmas period. Christmas is coming and people generally take a number of days off. They are entitled to do so after working for the whole year. It minimises the amount of time available in which to create a functioning service by 1 January. The Minister is in a bind because people have not signed up to this proposal. He has not had enough conversations with them. That is the truth and the Minister should not shake his head. We have met doctors and nurses. Two nurses told me that they were really worried about refusing to participate. They will go to work on a Wednesday morning. There might be a number of normal births and perhaps two or three terminations of pregnancy. The nurses are given their tasks for the day-----

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