Gender Equality
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-08
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

You learn something new every day and I learned something today from a meeting with representatives of housekeeping attendants or domestic attendants in hospitals. They represented people who previously might have been categorised as cleaners in hospitals and they came from University Hospital Limerick, Cork University Hospital and Letterkenny hospital. What I learned was very interesting. As one woman put it, when she first became a cleaner 18 years ago, she was given a cloth, a bucket and mop. Today, it is necessary for these people to do courses on fumigation and electronic stuff that I do not even know what it is called-----

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Sitting date: 2023-02-08