Mental Health Services
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-24
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Bríd Smith (PBP), Dublin South-Central

The Minister of State says she was informed on 11 May that there was a problem with staffing. She was probably informed on 11 May but the Department and the HSE had known that there was a problem with staffing. As I said earlier, it is like Groundhog Day. We can go right back to 2017, to a replica with the same number of beds and the same period of time. The question is: what will the health services do to retain nurses? To get an answer to that, the Minister of State must sit down with the PNA and other nursing unions. She will not know how it is on the ground and the answers to this unless she talks to those at the coalface and I ask her to do that.

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