Unions says recruitment caps are preventing enough staff being hired to fill vacancies.
Nurses and midwives are protesting outside hospitals today, and throughout the week.
SIPTU and INMO members will joined on by their Fórsa clerical and admin colleagues on the picket line at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown, Dublin.
While in Offaly a protest is taking place at Tullamore Hospital tomorrow at 12:30pm.
The INMO says it's over recruitment 'caps', which the unions say are preventing healthcare facilities from recruiting the staff needed to fill vacancies across the country.
SIPTU's Damian Ginley says despite talk of record-breaking levels of investment in the health service, certain frontline roles are still left vacant:
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