Healthcare workers are avoiding Dublin due to exorbitant housing costs. File photo. Image: Shutterstock Healthcare workers are avoiding Dublin due to exorbitant housing costs. File photo. Image: Shutterstock THE COST OF housing in Dublin is driving nurses and other healthcare workers away from living and working in the capital, leading to staffing problems for the health service, an Oireachtas Committee has been told.
“Because we’re in the Dublin area, we’re also at a disadvantage with regard to people not being to afford rent and mortgages in the area and travelling long hours, which they can’t commit to on a long term basis,” O’Kelly said.O’Kelly, who is interim chief officer of the Dublin South, Kildare and West Wicklow Community Healthcare Organisation, was appearing before an Oireachtas sub-committee regarding the Linn Dara Child and Adult Mental Health unit in Cherry Orchard, Dublin.
Linn Dara was forced to reduce its number of inpatient beds from 22 to 13 last month due to challenges in hiring and retaining nursing staff at the necessary levels.
It’s a no brainier really!
so build the hospitals outside Dublin instead of forcing all the staff & patients into Dublin. No reason why people from KK/WX/South Tipp & Carlow should be going to Dublin instead of going to Waterford City where every cent invested gets a better return than in Dublin.
FG FF invited the vulture funds Blackrock, Vanguard into the country, No MSM is prepared to say that out loud So they continue to allow the situation deteriorate,