The Minister for Health Simon Harris has said the last thing the health service needs is industrial action.
Minister Harris’s comments come after the INMO recently announced plans to undertake strike action if pay and conditions are met.
However Minister Harris expects nurses to abide by the Lansdowne Road agreement whilst negotiations are ongoing.
Mr Harris said: “They’ve now provided three weeks and six days before a work-to-rule takes place across the Irish health service.””A work-to-rule I believe – and the INMO have conceded – would be detrimental to Irish patients.”
“You only resolve any dispute by sitting around a table and trying to sort it out. What we don’t need in the Irish health service, what nobody needs, is industrial action,”