Harney urges nurses to join forum to discuss demands
The Minister for Health has appealed to nurses to abide by a Labour Court recommendation, and take part in a new forum to discuss their demands.
Members of the Irish Nurses Organisation, and the Psychiatric Nurses Association, held lunchtime protests in Limerick and Galway today, ahead of a work-to-rule action which is due to begin on Monday week.
This will include a refusal to carry out any clerical, administrative, telephone or IT work.
INO General Secretary Liam Doran insists it will not affect patient care, but Minister for Health Mary Harney is concerned.
She said: "Patients have to come first and clearly any practices that would put patients' safety at risk would be of enormous concern to myself and the public and indeed the nurses themselves."
