Nurses consider industrial action

Claire O’Sullivan

The Government decision came in spite of a Task Force on Assaults on Psychiatric Nurses report which recommended nurses assaulted at work should be entitled to adequate compensation, without having to prove liability and without incurring legal fees.

Instead of the automatic compensation scheme, Tánaiste Mary Harney had recommended the establishment of a Fixed Redress Scheme in addition to the existing indemnity scheme established in 1983.