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Updated 1pm
NURSES AT THE Mater are calling for the Dublin hospital to be taken off-call for emergencies due to overcrowding at the ED.
45 patients were waiting on trolleys in the emergency department this morning, according to nursing union the INMO.
The union says it’s “extremely concerned” at the situation in the emergency department in particular and in the hospital in general.
According to a statement:
“There are currently 100 staff nurse vacancies in the Mater Hospital. The INMO is not satisfied that the hospital has adhered to the agreed escalation policy for dealing with severe overcrowding.
“The INMO is meeting with management today and an emergency meeting of INMO members will take place thereafter.”
TheJournal.ie has contacted the Mater for comment.
Beaumont
This afternoon’s development comes after nurses at another Dublin hospital, Beaumont, voted to engage in a work-to-rule the week before Christmas over concerns about staffing.
Nurses at the hospital have given the required three weeks notice and will begin the work-to-rule on 16 December.
Lorraine Monaghan, INMO industrial relations officer, told Morning Ireland that nurses have voted overwhelming in favour of the action due to “very unsafe staffing levels”, noting that there are 45 vacancies across 14 wards/units at the hospital.
Monaghan said it is “impossible to deliver safe patient care in these conditions”.
She said staff members have highlighted the issues with management for some time and have been “left with no other choice”.
Some 99% of members have voted in favour of industrial action.
During the work-to-rule patient care will not be affected, but non-essential and clerical administration work will not be carried out.
Monaghan said the industrial action will continue “until the situation is addressed”. Management need to “rethink their strategy” she added.
“If they can’t recruit they need to close beds … staffing levels have been decimated.”
Trying to attract new staff
In a statement, Beaumont Hospital said it has been “consistently working with the INMO regarding current vacancies and has developed a strategic recruitment campaign which targets nurses nationally and internationally”.
The hospital says it has also partnered with a number of large academic teaching hospitals in Dublin and is advertising through a variety of media as part of its recruitment campaign.
The statement continues:
Beaumont Hospital is retaining and attracting a higher number of graduates. Of the 56 undergraduates who qualified from Beaumont in 2015, 46 accepted pre-registration positions and a further nine joined Beaumont from other hospitals.
“Beaumont Hospital has been engaging with unions on a strategy to attract and retain additional nursing staff.”
There are currently 43 vacancies across surgical and medical in Beaumont. This number can fluctuate depending on a number of external factors.
“Beaumont Hospital has one of the busiest EDs (emergency departments) in Ireland, providing services to over 50,000 patients each year.”
With reporting by Daragh Brophy.
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Anyone else think that the fact those girls aged 12-17 were online trying to make friends with men is equally disturbing!
I do. I also think it’s strange that people are making jokes on an article that is about an adult grooming and abusing children. What the hell is wrong with people?
This is very sad – those poor girls. What a sick woman…disgusting! Sentence is nowhere near long enough.
Surely if she had sexual activity with a 12 year old she is a paedophile? Is she on the sexual predators register?
It’s a fricking sad state when people joke about this in the comments because it’s a woman in question.
Switch the sexes around and suddenly it would appear to be a lot more sinister. How’s that for double standards!
Pretending to be a man, the balls on her!!
She certainly looks like a man!
Is she not a man if she says she is a man? Isn’t Caitlin Jenner a woman now? Wtf?
Grot Master, if you have no understanding of what it means to be transgender, then just STFU
A c*** acting the b******s!!! All joking aside though its worrying that those type of people are out there & seem to think its ok to prey on what can only be called children!!!
Interesting to think what would have happened if she made contact with some of the pervey men who pretend to be teenage girls online – might have generated an awkward first meet that! Ah well – as I once read “Online dating, all great and grand until somebody buys a plane ticket!”
Regardless of law or social standards or norms, 12 to 17 year olds are children. The conduct of the perpetrator was vile, predatory and extremely abusive. It was indefensible conduct. Her gender or orientation does not diminish the gravity of the offences.
I would be less concerned about age parity situations but a 23 year old with a17 year old is unequal and allows scope for manipulation and an abusive relationship.
Should they not be more concerned that she was going after underage girls rather than the fact that she pretended to be male in order to do so? The article and the judge’s comments read more like they’re focusing on the deception and down playing the fact that the deception was used as a means to engage in grooming and pedophilia.
To be fair she looks like a bloke. Shave off that barnet and all of a sudden she resembles Mark the brickie from down the road.
Why do women get off lighter than men when it comes to sex crimes against kids. Same crime same sentence
No bollocks more like
Clearly those fooled should have gone to spec savers
I think you will find the age of consent for most of Europe is 14-15. Only Spain, the UK and Ireland are older.
No, 16 and 17 for quite a few other countries. 12 however is not an age of consent anywhere in Europe.
13 was the age of consent in Spain up until last year or the year before, it’s 14 in Italy. It’s 13 in Japan. It’s 13 in Argentina. These are all first world countries.
Oh, so I’m a paedophile? I see. Maybe you should move there and save them all. And btw, they are not underage in those countries. They are underage here, which just goes to show how arbitrary your argument is depending on where in the world you go.
That was a shitty comment you made in inferring I’m a paedophile, but I suppose when you think like you do…anyone who raises an alternative view to yours must be just that.
This from the man who couldn’t make his point without saying that people like me would convince children that they were abused.
According to you it would not be paedophilia so I’m not sure how you are offended? You are arguing that these girls weren’t abused because in some countries the age of consent is lower.
@Luke
I’m gonna go and take a page from your book, and use a line I’ve see you use on countless other articles. What you’re advocating and defending is illegal in Ireland and in the UK where this case is based. That’s the law of the land, and if you don’t like it, you’re free to leave.
That blew up quickly ! I think Luke was just giving examples of the age of consent in other countries. that’s all .
You didn’t see his other comments. He said that the ‘victims’ would never get over it, and something about that being utter b####x. He then went on to say that this was consensual and that people like me would convince kids they were abused. The thread was deleted because of his language I suspect. Do you think it blew up quickly now?
Dell , my apologies I wasn’t aware of his posts that were deleted .
@Suzie
Be thankful you missed it. The whole thread was removed, and his was the first comment on it, so it was definitely because of what he was saying that it was taken down. Flat out justifying adults having sex with children with that nonsense about how it happened for thousands of years in the past, how they still do it in third world countries, how it’s biologically possible so it must be okay.
Absolutely disgusting individual.
@Suzy
Be thankful you missed it. The whole thread was removed, and his was the first comment on it, so it was definitely because of what he was saying that it was taken down. Flat out justifying adults having sex with children with that nonsense about how it happened for thousands of years in the past, how they still do it in third world countries, how it’s biologically possible so it must be okay.
Absolutely disgusting individual.
Byran , that’s shocking , I’m not surprised his comments were taken down . that’s pretty low..
Oh and alright Orla ;)
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