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

Essential worker working from home ? Are you serious ? There is absolutely no comparison with you and with a frontline worker working with Covid positive patients , cleaning up their bodily fluids , suctioning their airways , in close contact 12 hours a day . In PPE with masks digging into their face and bruises on their cheeks . Zipping bodies into bags , holding dieing patients hands because no one was allowed in .

I normally don't have to wear the full gear but twice I had to do full PPE for a 7 day stretch of shifts and I thought it was going to kill me.

I honestly don't know how people get up and go to work every week knowing they have to put it on. The sweat alone is incredible.

Well myself and all the agency staff I've met doing my job get the same pay as the HSE staff. Maybe it's different with the highly qualified staff but certainly not true of all agency staff on the Frontline.

It's not so simple.

Lots of admin staff are based in hospitals/primary care centres/health centres. Do they get it? Many healthcare assistants don't work in a clinical setting. They work in people's homes.

What about ward clerks? They sit at desks in COVID wards etc.

I wouldn't like to be trying to figure out who gets it.

LV all over the place on News talk now.

Yeah agree but that is modern Ireland.

All about the greater good until there is a chance they can get money themselves.

Still better on workers than a government vanity project

Which is why they said frontline workers in a health care / clinical setting . Those is direct contact with Covid patients

What Christmas bonus?????

Everything from IT people to carpenters apparently will have a shout , but as we've seen with pup people on jsa very long term were able and still today getting pup ,

I think that's why they used the word clinical setting , but I wouldn't be one bit surprised if staff working from home will somehow qualify

Usual public service back slapping exercise - no doubt teachers will pile in next, followed by public transport and then the whole lot like gardai will be in like Flynn.

P1sses me rightly off. I was so essential that I had to risk my health flying around Europe, staying in hotels and on offshore oil rigs for the whole of the pandemic being part of the infrastructure that made sure the lights didn't go out and the transport didn't stop moving. I had to drive for ten hours from Amsterdam to Esbjerg and back because nearly all the flights were cancelled.

What do I get? Taxed to the boll1x to pay for PS to get a €1000 bonus while I get a bloody day off I don't want or need.

I'm actually being a bit tongue in cheek there - there are no doubt vast numbers of people who were essential like myself in some way or another and we just got on with our jobs as functioning members of society asked to do a little bit more for a change.

As long as it's ONLY genuine frontline health workers (like some other poster said, cleaning up puke and pushing tubes etc) who get it I won't begrudge them it at all. But if it starts turning into a free for all for any other PS workers I won't be happy.

I think I got a €100 of vouchers extra in 2020 for the whole risking my health for the nine months or so :D

Christmas bonus? I'm in the HSE (and it's previous titles EHB, ERHA, NAHB etc.) for 34 years and I have never heard of anyone getting a Christmas bonus (or any bonus).