Nurses rally over lower pay plan for graduates

Nursing unions opposed to HSE plans to hire recruits at 80% of current pay rates have pledged to target TDs in their attempts to hobble the plan.

Graduates who could apply for the 1,000 positions being advertised by the HSE are instead likely to try and attend politicians’ constituency clinics in a bid to make the HSE maintain current pay scales.

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) held a demonstration in Croke Park on Saturday and have promised further action in a bid to scupper the proposal.