Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Government has provided unprecedented resources targeted at improving services across the health sector and at improving the working environment and working conditions of nurses.

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The impact of the winter initiative can be seen so far in terms of the better flow through hospitals in emergency departments and so on.

That said, I will talk to the Minister for Health on this but there is a range of registration bodies in health which register a range of professionals across the health area. The Government focus today has been on more the general allocation of money to try to improve and expand services.

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