173. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reasoning behind his Department’s decision not to honour the December 2015 agreement reached between the Department of Health, the HSE and the nursing unions; his views on the fact that this has created a significant anomaly whereby 2016 graduates are earning more than those who graduated in the previous five years; and his further views on the fact that this anomaly is contributing to recruitment and retention difficulties with nurses and a resultant high agency nurse bill. [27897/16]

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173. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reasoning behind his Department’s decision not to honour the December 2015 agreement reached between the Department of Health, the HSE and the nursing unions; his views on the fact that this has created a significant anomaly whereby 2016 graduates are earning more than those who graduated in the previous five years; and his further views on the fact that this anomaly is contributing to recruitment and retention difficulties with nurses and a resultant high agency nurse bill. [27897/16]

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