'Services will be brought to halt' if hundreds of health and care staff strike 

Fórsa trade union members Maryan Lucid, Andrea Heffernan, and Siobhan O'Dowd, during strike action at Enable Ireland in Tralee, Co Kerry, last September. Strike action may well be on the cards again. Picture: Domnick Walsh 

A proposal for indefinite strike action at a number of community and voluntary sector agencies funded by the HSE has been backed by the Fórsa national executive.

Ireland’s largest public sector trade union said the action will likely involve hundreds of health and care staff as it slammed a “foot-dragging” approach by Government on pay and conditions inequality.