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Loss of Cardiac Allowance for paramedics

Elessar · 2012-09-19 09:35:04

According to the irish times, the government is abolishing the cardiac allowance for ambulance service staff. I know this is an ancient allowance from the time when defibrilators were first introduced but I believe it has since been incorporated into basic pay. How much did this entitle a paramedic to? Is it really €16.35…

19-09-2012 9:35am

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According to the irish times, the government is abolishing the cardiac allowance for ambulance service staff.

I know this is an ancient allowance from the time when defibrilators were first introduced but I believe it has since been incorporated into basic pay. How much did this entitle a paramedic to? Is it really €16.35 an hour as claimed in the article? Surely taking so much away is infringing on basic pay?

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#2 19-09-2012 10:20am

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Would live it to be €16.35 an hour..... But it's €16.35 a week........

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#3 19-09-2012 10:29am

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The Cardiac Allowance of €16.89 is a weekly allowance incorporated into the basic salary. So taking an average of about 55% of your salary now going on taxes and levies you'd see about €8 per week of that. Over the two week pay cheque the ambulance service is now facing another paycut of of over €33 every pay day on their basic salary..

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