Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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2485. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacancy for a position (details supplied) will be filled; the funding provided for the post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46320/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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2486. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department and the HSE will take to ensure that newly qualified nurses are provided with employment opportunities within the Irish health system; if she will address the difficulties being experienced by graduate nurses (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46329/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The Health Service Executive would strongly encourage all healthcare workers to return to Ireland to commence their careers. All Irish graduates are offered employment opportunities in the HSE and we continually run nursing recruitment competitions.

The Department recommends that the individual register with the HSE Career Hub careerhub.hse.ie/ This provides for job alerts to members for roles in the HSE and S38 & S39s (Over 2 million notifications issued to date). The HSE has seen a 100% Increase of eligible applicants for sponsorship public health nursing and midwifery programmes, following profiling on the Career Hub, coupled with candidate engagement webinars.

The HSE continues to recruit in a fiercely competitive global recruitment market in which the WHO forecast a deficit of healthcare workers of over 10 million by 2030. It is in this context that the HSE continues to explore new opportunities to attract and build our healthcare workforce both nationally and internationally.