Ireland’s Education Minister Helen McEntee has committed to unveiling further measures aimed at encouraging Irish teachers working abroad to return home, as the country grapples with a growing recruitment and retention crisis. Speaking at the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) annual conference in Co Wexford on Wednesday, Minister McEntee said her department is actively exploring … Read more
Health workers represented by the trade unions Fórsa and Unite, as well as the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), have voted decisively in favour of industrial action in response to staff shortages in the Health Service Executive (HSE). The unions argue that recruitment restrictions and the suppression of posts in the HSE are creating … Read more
The National Ambulance Service (NAS) urgently needs to hire additional employees, according to an unpublished Health Service Executive staffing plan (NAS). The report warns that based on current modelling, compliance with a target to respond within 19 minutes to life-threatening cases other than cardiac or respiratory arrest would be “considerably less than 40 percent” by … Read more