IEThe Irish Times
Health and social care firms to be allowed recruit more than half of staff from outside EU
Change to apply to health and social care sector, but Coalition under pressure to extend remit for heavy goods vehicle drivers
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- 22 Aug 2026, 05:05 UTC
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- 1 version
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 22 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Martin Wall
- Section
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Change to apply to health and social care sector, but Coalition under pressure to extend remit for heavy goods vehicle drivers
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Health and social care firms to be allowed recruit more than half of staff from outside EU
Change to apply to health and social care sector, but Coalition under pressure to extend remit for heavy goods vehicle drivers
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- #1107
- Observed
- 22 Aug 2026, 05:05 UTC
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- 759,049 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt