Nursing group wants extra tax money ploughed into hospitals

THE Government should use the expected €1 billion extra in Revenue coffers to ease the growing pressure on overcrowded hospitals, the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) said yesterday.

In a pre-Budget submission, it claimed staffing policies were fatally flawed with thousands of nurses leaving to work abroad.

INO general secretary Liam Doran said the available funds should be ploughed in to address the continuing inadequacies and inequities in the sector.