Written answer
Health Services Staff
HEA graduate totals were supplied; employment and retention figures were referred to the HSE, with government committed to recruiting and retaining new nurses and midwives.
194. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing and midwifery graduates from Irish higher education institutions in each of the past ten years; the number who entered employment in the Irish public health service within one year of qualification; and the number remaining employed in the public health service after one year, two years, three years, four years and five years, in tabular form. [74645/26]
Comment on this
The table below sets out the latest data available from the Higher Education Authority (HEA) on the total number of nursing and midwifery graduates from Irish higher education institutions in each of the past ten years. [1]
The Government is committed to recruiting and retaining newly qualified nurses and midwives in the public health service.
The information requested in relation to the number of graduates who entered employment in the Irish public health service within one year of qualification, and the numbers remaining employed after one, two, three, four and five years is an operational matter. This has been referred to the HSE for a direct response to the deputy.
[[1]] HEA data is rounded to the nearest 5.