Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is a huge crisis at Tipperary University Hospital, TUH, which was previously know as South Tipperary General Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital. The embargo that is in place is preventing recruitment. According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, safe working and other practices are being eroded. We need these posts. It is not a matter of funding. Those posts exist already but people have left, retired, are on sick pay or on maternity leave and the posts need to be filled immediately. Safe working practices have been eroded according to the hospital's own guidelines and the nurses' own guidelines. We need these posts filled immediately and do not talk about there being no embargo and they have all been recruited. This is happening in real time. These statements to the effect that 70 nursing position have not been filled were made by the INMO.

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