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- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: I call Deputy Pringle of the Independent Group.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: A Chathaoirligh Gníomhach, on a point of order, where has the Minister gone? What is more important than being here-----
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: Deputy, you have had your time.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Where has the Minister gone?
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: He is over there.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: He is not the Minister.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: He is a Minister. Do not be so disrespectful. Deputy Healy-Rae should sit down now. I call Deputy Pringle.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister is not here.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: What about Bere Island and Cape Clear?
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am never disrespectful to anyone.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: He is a Minister.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I have no respect for the man who is not here.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: You had your time, Deputy.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion regarding public health service staffing. I fully support this motion, particularly its call on the Government to lift the recruitment moratorium, commit to restoring staff positions abolished in 2023 and 2024 and fund the additional recruitment needed for appropriate staffing and the expansion of services. I thank the Labour Party for...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: I call People Before Profit-Solidarity Deputies Boyd Barrett, Murphy and Barry.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: It is me and Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: That is grand.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Minister for Health has the neck to come in here and claim that the pay and numbers strategy is not a recruitment moratorium when the health unions are telling us that is precisely what it is. To be clear, it does not matter to health workers or to patient safety whether or not it is officially called a recruitment moratorium. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Duncan Smith and his colleagues for this important motion. This debate is about whether we have safe and adequate staffing levels in our hospitals and health services, and whether the pay and numbers strategy is an embargo by another name to prevent the recruitment necessary to reach the safe and adequate staffing levels required to ensure patient safety and provide treatment...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: More than 1 million people are now on waiting lists for various medical treatments and consultations, a stark increase from the situation when the current Government took office. The public health service is grappling with a severe shortage of staff, which is directly affecting the ability of healthcare professionals to provide safe and effective care. The understaffing issue is not just a...