Public healthcare workers, who served onsite in a clinical Covid-19 exposed env. to receive 1k euro

@Fandymo

Ah no why should you get it and not any other worker then. I know plenty of people in the public sector who had to work at there place ad what they did needed it. I also know plenty of people who had (chose) to use public transport also. So no just no. Gardai shop workers etc deserve it more

Edit thought I had piece quoted

Plenty of people would have had to do those things in your question you are nothing special. Were you working in a clinical Covid exposed enviroment

Pity they can’t fund this by deducting €10000 from the grotesque salaries of the public service fat cats

This is been given by them to there own workers who they pay. Everyone (well anyone who is serious) knows what a front line worker is, it has been used for years even in this site.

Well no how about those who could not work due to the pandemic

How it's vert specific who can get it. I an not expecting it given I was not in a clinical exposed area and anyone who I know who works in the PS are not expecting it even if they were working at some point during the year. Most and I hope all unions will know to keep quiet. The only ones I be expecting to be added on are perhaps agency workers depending on time worked

Agency staff are generally paid more...plus they are not employed by the HSE...why should they get it? They are essentially private sector...if they want to be public sector they should join

Who should get it anyone in the health services who were working in a place where they were working with people in a hospital GP nursing home or call to patients for the HSE.

I worked as agency staff in the HSE for years and was paid the exact same as my HSE colleagues, bar the pension contribution. My hourly rate was taken straight from the HSE payscales.

If it's simply a matter of HSE vs. non-HSE workers, why have they explicitly stated that private hospice and nursing home workers are getting the payment?

Have ye ever watched The Apprentice where the candidates all sit around 'brainstorming' about the latest project Lord Sugar has devised for them?

Well swap Donnelly, MM Leo and Foley for any of them and this is how this ridiculous farce has been dreamt up.

Sounds to me like they may include agency workers after all;

The Taoiseach told the Dáil that private healthcare workers who were "contracted by the HSE" and worked on the frontline are entitled to the payment. Micheál Martin said this was his "understanding", "subject to further clarification".

There are some issues around this though. My agency pay the HSE rates and I get the yearly rise but we didn't get a Christmas bonus like out HSE counterparts. Rumour is we will be getting the €1000 but with agencies I won't believe it till it's in writing.

Edit: I was wrong about their being bonuses.

I don't know anybody in the HSE who gets a Christmas bonus..any year. We certainly didn't get any.

What Christmas bonus for HSE employees?