asked he Minister for Defence if he will consider giving incremental credit for previous service to married nurses employed temporarily in the Army Nursing Service on the same basis as is allowed by the Minister for Health to married nurses employed in health authority hospitals.
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Married nurses employed temporarily in health authority hospitals are remunerated on a salary scale basis. Nurses employed temporarily by my Department are paid a fixed hourly rate and the question of increments does not, therefore, arise.
How is it that Army nurses are always discriminated against and that even when there is an improvement in the general nursing service the Army nurses have to wait for a very long period after nurses in hospitals and institutions? Here is another case in which nurses in the Army are obviously being discriminated against.
The present arrangements are working very satisfactorily and we have no problem in getting nurses.
Is it not a fact that it is very difficult to get nurses in the Army at present?
That is not correct. We have no trouble.
That is my information. It might be no harm for the Minister to know that there is serious discontent about this particular matter.
I am not so aware.