Crowe supports nurses and midwives in fight against registration increase <\/p>\n
Plans by the Nurses and Midwives Board of Ireland (NMBI) to increase the retention fee for nurses and midwives has been described by Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe as unfair and said it will place an extra financial burden on already hard pressed frontline staff. Nurses and Midwives are opposing an increase to a new registration fee being sought by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI).The cost for registering for 2015 is set to increase by 50% from \u20ac100 to \u20ac150.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe<\/p>\n
\u201cThe plan by the NMBI to increase the retention fee for nurses and midwives from \u20ac100 to \u20ac150 in 2015 is unacceptable.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are frontline staff working at the coalface in a chaotic health service that is underfunded, understaffed and badly managed. The fee for registering for 2013 stood at \u20ac88, meaning that nurses and midwifes have faced a massive 70% increase over the past two years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is very unfair of the NMBI to impose this increase penal rate on nurses and midwives who have to register with the Board if they want to work in any of the Irish hospitals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese workers, who are mostly female, have already suffered significant loss in earnings as result of the government\u2019s austerity policies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have had to endure cuts to their take home pay, the imposition of the universal social charge and other government imposed levies. <\/p>\n
\u201cSinn F\u00e9in supports nurses and midwives in their opposition to this unjust increase\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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