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Industrial action may be the only response to HSE recruitment ban

Date Released: 13 Dec 2007

SIPTU’s Nursing Council is calling on the HSE to rescind its ban on recruitment with immediate effect.

“At this stage we cannot rule out industrial action as the only response which will be listened to by the HSE,” warned SIPTU’s National Nursing Official, Louise O’Reilly. “They seem oblivious to the detrimental effect the ban is having on both staff and patients.”

The ban was discussed at a meeting of the Union’s National Nursing Council yesterday – December 12.

“The Council is very concerned at the pressure which healthcare employees in hospitals and other HSE facilities are working under, all over Ireland,” said Ms O’Reilly.

“The HSE is laying the groundwork for even bigger problems for healthcare workers and users of the health service if the recruitment ban is not rescinded now.

“The current working conditions for nurses in particular are verging on intolerable as the ban cuts ever deeper on a daily basis.

“More nurses are needed in the system, yet large numbers of student nurses have indicated that they will not be entering the nursing profession when they finish college,” she concluded.





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