RTÉ did a vox pop on the nurses this morning and couldn’t find one person against them funnily enough

we should bring in legislation that forces newly qualified and expensively trained nurses (or any PS workers), who electively turn down a job in Ireland to take higher pay in UAE or elsewhere, to immediately begin paying back a portion of the cost of their taxpayer funded education.

This should be a stipulation of their entry into a nursing/teaching/whatever degree programme.

With this kind of terms and conditions in place, the argument that the Irish domiciled nurses are worse off, would fall away immediately.

Otherwise Irish taxpayers are funding a system that incentivises the public sector beneficiaries of our tax-funded subsidised education model, to continually agitate for more money ..... on the sole basis that the grass is always greener somewhere else.

That is no way to run the public sector.

If PS nurses don't like their situation (that they signed up to with eyes wide open), then join an agency or leave the country ...... just don't pretend that the ones who stay in situ are being somehow deceived or treated in bad faith.

I and lots of others in Ireland could get better paid if we went to a competitor abroad ...... but expecting my employer to do anything about that in pay terms, would be delusional.

The nurses going abroad thing is the biggest red herring.

Nurses go abroad for cash yes, but so do loads of other professionals, so what? Nurses also go abroad because many of them are 22 coming out of college with a qualification that is immediately usable overseas. Why wouldn't you?

In comparison; accountants spend another 3 plus years before being able to call themselves an accountant.
Finance workers need to pass CFAs (or accounting exams) to have good credibility which will take a year or so.
Solicitors spend similar.
Barristers longer (and not as usable).
Architects spend years qualifying.
IT/Software development and Engineering take a few years of earning your stripes.

Nurses meanwhile are ready to go. Teachers are similar - but the big difference is that their qualification is often very restricted.

Is the nurses pension all that good, I am hearing not good.

Is the nurses pension all that good, I am hearing not good.

Bit of a chicken and egg here. Banks currently aren't being very greedy but this situation is a result of them being greedy in the 00s. Now that has to be balanced by the buyers being equally greedy.

Unfortunately that doesn't help those who had nothing to do with the problem other than being a very good lesson in never borrowing to the hilt on your main residence.

Ah with these kind of people it was never going to work.

The real problem is that nobody wanted to repossess back in the day. People like this were left in situ for years.

Bit of a chicken and egg here. Banks currently aren't being very greedy but this situation is a result of them being greedy in the 00s. Now that has to be balanced by the buyers being equally greedy.

Unfortunately that doesn't help those who had nothing to do with the problem other than being a very good lesson in never borrowing to the hilt on your main residence.

Celebrities rarely earn much money.

When you're younger you don't really ever think about it, but as I've gotten older, I've often wondered how celebrities make a living. It turns out a great many don't.