Update: Nursing Staff Levels, 4th August 2015

QUESTION NO:  222

DÁIL QUESTION  addressed to the Minister for Health (Leo Varadkar)
by Deputy Bernard J. Durkan
for WRITTEN ANSWER on 09/07/2015   

 
  *  To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which initiatives he has taken have positively impacted on nursing staff levels in the various public hospitals throughout the country; the extent to which the extra nursing staff have taken up duty; and if not as yet when; the degree to which he has noted an improvement arising therefrom; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

                                                                         Bernard J. Durkan T.D.

 
REPLY.
I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.