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The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation are due to announce their first set of strike dates tomorrow after 95% of their members agreed to strike action in December.

Midwives and nurses are set to withdraw their labour for 24-hour periods in protest over low wages and safe staffing levels.

It will be just the second time in the INMO's 100-year history that its members have called a national strike.

They say wages are too low to recruit and retain adequate numbers of nurses and midwives.

INMO General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha said last month: "Ireland’s nurses and midwives are speaking with one clear voice.

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"This vote reflects a deep frustration in our professions, which the government cannot continue to ignore.

"Nurses and midwives simply want to do their jobs and care for patients properly. But low pay has led to staff shortages, compromising safe care.

"Ireland’s current haphazard approach to nurse staffing is costly and bad for patient care, as confirmed by the Minister for Health’s own nursing taskforce."

The strike announcement will be made at the INMO Headquarters in the Whitworth Building, Morning Star Avenue, Smithfield, Dublin 7 at 3.30pm on Tuesday.