An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2024-05-02
============================================================

Martin Conway (FG), Administrative Panel

It is great to see the Acting Leader, Senator Currie, in the hot seat. I say, "Well done" to her. I listened carefully to Senator Keogan's contribution. I would argue that our international and national obligations are not mutually exclusive. We have obligations in both contexts. What I would like to see happen is a resolution of the issues that affect us nationally because that will, by extension, resolve the issues arising from our international obligations. I had occasion to be in a hospital recently and almost all of the nursing staff there were Filipino. Were they not there and if we were not able to rely on the tens of thousands of workers who come here from abroad, our health service would essentially collapse.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2024-05-02/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:52:54+00:00
Sitting date: 2024-05-02