The INMO says it’s unacceptable that newly qualified nurses and midwives are not being offered jobs because of money issues in hospitals.
The union says a number of its graduate members have not yet been offered permanent positions because some regions have gone over budget.
This is despite substantial hospital vacancies around the country in places like Galway and Sligo.
It says a failure to offer contracts to graduates breaches national employment commitments and undermines Government policy on recruitment.
Phil Ni Sheaghdha, General Secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, says some progress has been made in other parts of the country:
