Nurses protest over disability cuts

Nurses are to protest against “severe and damaging cuts” to intellectual disability services outside the Dáil next Tuesday.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has claimed cuts made to services over the past five years have had an negative impact on the lives of those with an intellectual disability.

INMO general secretary Liam Doran said the protest was part their campaign to re-affirm the specialist role of the registered nurse in intellectual disability. Mr Doran said they wanted to evoke public debate on what was a human rights issue.