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National Nursing Official, Louise O'Reilly
No doubt you will have noticed a small departure from the usual order of proceedings at our Conference this year! We have not extended an invitation to the Minister for Healthand Children to attend because when the Nursing Council wrote to the Minister seeking a meeting to discuss the impact of the latest recruitment embargo on nurses and midwives working on the frontline and she replied that she was too busy to meet us! So the Nursing Council decided that it would be inappropriate in the current climate to issue an invitation to Minister at this time.
SIPTU General Secretary, Joe O'Flynn
The health services in the 1980s were characterised by hospital closures, bed cuts and staff embargoes, due severe pressures on the public finances. Given the tremendous success of the economy over the last decade in particular, it is ironic that we seem to be encountering the same savage attacks on the public health system again today – with staff embargoes, ward closures and bed cuts being the order of the day.
General President, Jack O'Connor
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