Nurses and midwives will hold lunchtime protests across the country today against an increase in fees.
Members of the INMO, SIPTU and the Psychiatric Nurses Association say no services will be affected by the demonstrations.
The protests will take place in Dublin, Cork, Sligo and Drogheda.
Nurses have called for the proposed 50% hike to the annual retention fee to be scrapped, saying it is unfairly targetting frontline staff.