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Dail Éireann — 2023-01-31
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Richard O'Donoghue (IND), Limerick County

I am very concerned about how many of our nurses, doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare workers are going abroad to work. It is the hopelessness I can see in them when I meet them that is the biggest issue. When is the Government going to tackle the issue of our healthcare workers leaving this country? The reason I know this is the case is because they are coming to us for help with their passport applications so they can leave this country when our health system needs them so badly. When is the Government going to tackle the problem and keep our health workers here? This comes from them coming to me for help with passport applications so they can leave the country because they see no future here with the way the health system is run.

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Sitting date: 2023-01-31