Maire Devine (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I support the amendment to the Order of Business. As Easter is almost upon us I wish everyone here a happy Easter. I will be here for the next two days but may not be able to be at the Order of Business. Senator Ó Ríordáin spoke about nurses. The deal that has been done is being put before the nurses by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, and the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, to see whether it will be accepted and whether they will agree to call off the industrial action they are entitled to take.

Easter is almost here, and I pay tribute to nurse Margaret Keogh, who was the first casualty of the 1916 Rising in the South Dublin union, now St. James' Hospital. I will also pay tribute, as I do every year, to nurse Elizabeth O'Farrell, who surrendered on behalf of the Irish Citizen Army on Moore Street. It is important to recognise the rebel nurses we have had and still have in the country.