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Thu 05 May 2007Gardaí to seek shorter week after INO offerThe Government is facing moves by gardaí and about 30,000 healthcare staff for a reduced working week on foot of the deal offered to nurses on Tuesday to end their seven-week dispute. Martin Walland Conor Lallyreport.About 40,000 members of the Irish Nurses' Organisation (INO) and the Psychiatric Nurses' Association (PNA) are to ballot next week on proposals which would see their working week reduced to 37.5 hours by June 2008.