Question from Deputy Pádraig Rice - PQ 38107-26

To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing graduates registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, the number of nursing graduates and the number and proportion currently employed in the Irish health service, broken down by Irish nationals, EU/UK nationals and non-EU nationals; the analysis undertaken by her Department on the capacity of the Irish healthcare system to absorb the growing number of nursing graduates entering the workforce, in each of the past five years, in tabular form - Pádraig O'Sullivan. -