John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)

Will the Ministers, Deputies Harris and Donohoe, the HSE and the Department accept that they have failed to keep on top of the issues that have been plaguing nurses for the past few years? We have this strike because of that failure. Will they intervene directly with the unions to set out a course to bring the strike to an end? Will they stop the provocative rhetoric in their description of the nurses and what they are doing?

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