Seanad debates
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Commencement Matters
Nursing Staff Recruitment
10:30 am
Lorraine Clifford Lee (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank the Minister of State. I am glad to hear of those additional recruits but, to be honest, I think it will just be a drop in the ocean. I would like to know the intake numbers into the public health nurse graduate programme and whether the Government is going to increase the numbers rapidly to deal with the rapidly growing population. To have 12 public health nurses graduating and being allocated to Dublin north is, as I said, welcome but it is just a drop in the ocean. We are trying to play catch-up and we are not going to catch up quickly enough with these numbers, unfortunately.
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