County Wexford Sinn Féin candidate Anthony Kelly has reiterated what his party's health spokesperson said earlier today by pressing home that Sinn Féin fully support student nurses in their fight against unfair and unjust government cuts.
"I have also been a campaigner for a better health service for this nation," Cllr Kelly said earlier this evening, "We cant have a better health service without our nurses. For all the failings of the Irish health service, our front line staff have never let the people of this country down. Now it is up to the people of this country to stand behind our front line staff. We will not allow draconian cuts to be enforced on these nurses. We are committed to reversing the cuts to pay of student nurses, and would vote immediately to restore the wages of working fourth year student nurses and midwives."
“We commend the many thousands of nurses and midwives who have campaigned not only against the unjust paycuts placed on them, but very importantly against the many cuts in services to patients over recent years. It is most often the nurses who have blown the whistle on the HSE and the Government, exposing malpractice, the reality of A&E overcrowding and the myriad other effects of Government cutbacks.”
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