Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann:” and substitute the following:

“notes that:

— the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation’s Executive Council and the Psychiatric Nurses Association have suspended industrial action, following a recommendation from the Labour Court;

— the Labour Court recommendation makes progress across all areas of concern to the nursing unions, including the key areas of safe staffing and addressing recruitment and retention problems; and

— the agreement by both sides that the resolution to the dispute must be found with the framework of the Public Service Stability Agreement;

welcomes proposals for:

— enhanced practice in nursing and widwifery with the development of a new Enhanced Nurse Practice salary scale;

— guaranteed multi-annual funding to maintain safe staffing levels;

— increased education and training opportunities;

— an expert review of the nursing profession to be undertaken in the medium term; and

— the addressing of other issues of concern to the union side as part of the resolution of the dispute; and

calls for all sides to the dispute to be given time to consider the recommendations without interference.”

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