Work Permits
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-23
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Colm Burke (FG), Cork North-Central

Can the Minister not set a timeline for the Departments to work out a solution to this problem? A big complaint I hear, for instance, is that medical practitioners who are going to New Zealand or Australia can get a visa and work permit sorted in a week, whereas we still have a glitch in our system whereby a person can get a work permit but cannot get a visa. I encourage the Minister to engage with the Medical Council and An Bord Altranais. There is a big complaint about the timeline for getting people registered who are qualified in other jurisdictions and need to be approved here. That needs to be sorted.

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Sitting date: 2023-02-23