Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The short answer is "Yes". This is something I discussed when I met the Ukrainian ambassador. We have many qualified healthcare professionals here. We have an amazing group of Ukrainian clinicians here already. We have been working with them to try to send humanitarian supplies back to Ukraine. A lot has been done there and we will continue to work with the Ukrainian community already here. The Deputy quite rightly said that we have doctors, nurses, midwives, allied health and social care professionals coming in. They have full rights to work. We obviously need as many clinicians as we can get in our own service. That will also help with the provision of care to Ukrainians coming in; it helps with language and culture and they will have a better understanding of the models of care that the refugees will be used to and the most appropriate care for them. We are engaging directly with the appropriate agencies to identify them and bring them into the system, and critically, in a way that works for them given everything that they have been through.

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