There are serious problems in the nursing profession. We had an excellent Commission on Nursing chaired by Judge Mella Carroll three years ago. When we resume, can we debate the progress made on implementing the recommendations of that commission? It will be noted from today's newspapers that the Irish Nursing Organisation states that by 2005 there will be a real crisis in nursing because no graduates will come out of college that year. It is reckoned that some graduates this year will not be able to get hospital jobs due to the cutbacks. They will go abroad immediately and it is most unlikely that we will get them back to work in our health service.