Pat Leahy: Nurses are entitled to make their case but the Government has a different job

In 2018, nurses’ leaders said their members were “fed up”, “angry”, “badly treated” and “let down” in relation to their pay and conditions.

In 2016, the union’s vice-president Mary Leahy said nurses had shouldered much of the burden during the economic crisis but had been “disrespected” by the State. “We have given enough,” she said. But the job of politicians and senior officials is a different one: to judge the competing claims for public resources and make the best judgments they can about where the public interest – rather than the interest of the public sector unions – lies.

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