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JUST 84 APPLICATIONS for the graduate nursing scheme have been processed, Minister for Health James Reilly has revealed.
In response to a parliamentary question on Tuesday, Reilly said that the initiative, which offers 1,000 positions at a reduced rate of pay, was introduced on the basis of a phased intake over several months.
Industrial Relations Officer at the Irish Nurses and Midwives Association (INMO) Edward Matthews told TheJournal.ie today that it is confident that the low numbers applying for the jobs “are a testament to the effectiveness of the boycott”.
Ireland is in recession. People are crying out for work, but to under-value oneself now is to undervalue oneself for ever more. Nurses have worked hard for their degrees. They have done their unpaid work placements and their internships. They are fully qualified, registered nurses, who have all the responsibilities of any other nurse. To take contracts at this inappropriate rate of pay, with all the responsibility, is to undervalue their time and commitment and the degree course to which they applied themselves.
Reilly said the HSE will “continue to accept applications on an ongoing basis” and a second phase, which will cover mental health, intellectual disability, midwifery and paediatrics, will launch in the coming days. There will also be opportunities for those who graduate in 2013 to participate in due course.
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They were reported on enough in the likes of Europe, Australia and Asia where people actually give a toss about global events. There’s little appetite for global news in the US as it confuses too many people who are unaware that places exist outside America.
@The Guru: I’d love the see the size list of under-reported multiple victim shootings in the U.S from last year.
That old chestnut… Americans with mental health issues is very different from a group pathologically disposed to subterfuge and altering your way of life, and now bedding itself in within Europe.. Wakey Wakey..
Martin, would you not say they also have mental health issues? France has the highest Muslim population in Europe, most families moved to France in the 60′s. The first mosque in arms was built in 1922 and guess what? There are still less that 10 million Muslims in France. Muslims in Europe is not new. Stop pretending it is.
*Paris
@Dave O Keeffe: Muslims and jews have been in Europe since the time of the crusades.
Exactly, and the country with the most Muslims they still only make up about 7% of the population (as its illegal to record religion in census in France I have used the highest reliable estimate I found, which is also coincidentally the average of all numbers I found when including the not so reliable estates)
@Martin Critten: And yet despite being so concerned for the safety of the people he’s dismantling legislation to stop mentally ill people from purchasing guns
I’m just glad that when the trump admin released their list of underreported terrorist events they included the bowling green massacre. For too long they have conspired to keep that quiet and it honours all those who lost their lives. Including me.
@Tony Canning: You lost your life in the bowling green massacre too? Maybe we should create a club?
Nevar ferget.
@Dave O Keeffe: The Muslims were in Spain hundreds of years ago. They were kicked out and still complain about it. Muslims tend to like warm dry climates for some reason
Would love just one day, where this fool isn’t in the news.
Only 1445 days to go
What a stupid list by the White House. Loads of attacks on their list received massive attention. Such as the Brussels airport attack last year.
And they did not even go to the bother to say when the attack in Kuwait happened.
I think he’s referring to the fake news websites he uses for his news
@Boganity: You have to wonder if that’s the ‘yard stick’ the President of America, the so called most powerful man in the world, has reduced measuring terrorism to, not the opinion of any one of his 17 intelligence agencies, but whether they recieved “adequate attention from Western media sources”. You couldn’t make this up, you really couldn’t.
I know and making it even worse is the list released by his staff to back up his claims, the incidents listed where massively reported worldwide so how he knows nothing about them is a real concern
@Ace: Good job Ireland isn’t on the list then…..
Under reporting ☺
Glad that doesn’t happen with RTE and the independent ☺
Unless it’s Sinn Fein, then they’ll both go to town with the negative reporting.
I’m glad it does happen anywhere accept in his head
Kenny should present him with a bowl of sawdust to represent what’s actually between his ears
@Boganity: This is interesting.
We need to halt the Muslim advance
This from the man who MADE UP “The Bowling Green massacre”.
In fairness I’m sure it was Kelly ann Conway who mentioned that
@Fear Uisce: Ah, but is it on the list, did it recieve adequate attention?
@Fear Uisce: If the press aren’t reporting enough terrorism, to justify your xenophobia, simply make some up. “I’m not happy with the amount of terrorist events being reported. Get out there Kellyann and give the press some alternative facts.” She’s just his mouthpiece. He’s the lying xenophobe.
He accused the media of not reporting on terrorist incidences without giving any examples. He’s being ridiculous.
He did, 78 examples to be precise.
They were all reported on though.
That list was produced later to make Trump look less stupid. Those 78 cases were “underreported”. That just means they weren’t on the front page of newspapers.
@Jason Culligan: One of those examples that the dope gave is Philadelphia.When was that declared as a ‘terrorist’ attack ?
Jason, on the list is Paris France Sept 2015, how was that under reported? It’s time you stopped trying to justify everything Trump says no matter how ill informed or stupid.
The Orlando nightclub shooting is on the list. That was extensively covered
@Dave O Keeffe: Jason is stuck in Trump’s arse, he is fed on Trump’s sh*t, and believes everything the big orange says, cut him some slack, he’s intelectually challenged enough, as it is.
Is the Dylan rooff shooting included or is that outside the timespan/ethnicity of the perpetrator????
Larissa I’ve never agreed much with Jason, but I always found him well informed on topics, but definitely his mask is slipping lately. Even he can’t defend the indefensible, I suppose.
trump would give his left ball for a new bin laden video.
Expect a “Reichstag” I’d say…
Trump is aching for his own 9/11 moment, when he can join his people together for the last holy war. Trumps triumph will herald the end of the empire
Sure there were some attacks in Israel and other places as well. Don’t see them on the list either.
The Donald Duck Cabinet is underreporting on terrorism.
It’s Called minimising the desired effect of terror, I look forward to the day I don’t see his ugly mutt plastered all over every newsfeed.
This is the work of Bannon, a hideous creature lurking in the background with his own twisted agenda.
You mean Baldrick the Blackadder character
This is the refugee vetting process that Bannon finds wayyyyy too lax :
They’re absolutely right. The media never reports on attacks in middle eastern countries.
It’s the new Donald and Mickey show
Unfortunately that’s because no one in this part is interested in or cares about what happens to people in the Middle East, if we did we wouldn’t have a refugee crisis
The Journal fails to mention that during Trumps rant in Tampa, he singled out Europe for unreported terrorist attacks.
@Chris Kirk: I know, it’s such a missed opportunity to point out yet another example of “Alternative Facts” from Trump
He is an idiot. One of his reports of terrorism was a friend of mine family member who was killed by a person with mental illness. Was never reported as a terrorist attack. The day he is forced out of office will be a day the rest of the world will celebrate.
New polls show what corrupt media agenda wants to say – as usual……should be the headline.
As proven during election and brexit etc…..these polls do not reflect the opinions they say they do – and are often doctored and manipulated – and simply wrong.
When is the media going to realise that their polls do not drive public opinion, it is the other way around, and if the ask the wrong questions from unrepresentative samples they get the wrong answers
Is it just me, or is Trump looking more and more like Boris Yeltsin ???
Nut Jobs the pair of them !!
@Gerald Duffy: That’s an insult to Boris
It is an interesting argument that ‘non-US citizens entering the country for the first time have no constitutional rights’. So when do the constitutional rights take effect? After immigration control? When you leave the airport? When you cross a state border?
And what happens before you get the constitutional rights? Can you be subjected to torture at the airport? Arbitrarily detained? Subjected to ‘cruel and degrading’ punishments?
The argument that the injunction is too wide in being nation-wide is also strange. The President’s executive order had nationwide effect. Was the Federal judge to stay it in Seattle only? Could a citizen of one of the 7 countries enter the USA at Seattle but not San Francisco?
I know nothing about American constitutional law but common sense suggsts that these arguments are so weak that they cannot succeed. If these are the Department of Justices best arguments they are in trouble. We will know tomorrow morning.
@Patrick Brompton: The key word in your comment is ‘common sense’, something that’s sadly missing in the Trump administration
I fail to see the point of this list. In the full list the nationalities of the known attackers is included. The American attacks? Performed by Americans. Most of the attacks were carried out by citizens of the country they occurred in. More Americans die in mass shootings carried out by white people. Surely the goal is to save as many lives as possible. Radicalisation happens online not at an airport.
**Breaking News**
Donald Trump does own a bathrobe.
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