Nurses face €20,000 pay-back over salary blunder

Eoin English

The Irish Nurses’ Organisation (INO) fears the bureaucratic error is being replicated in other health boards and warned the final figure could run into millions. It has cases in the SHB region where amounts overpaid to individual nurses over some years range from €3,000 to over €20,000.

The mistake has “upset and distressed” affected members, said Michael Dineen, the INO’s industrial relations officer in Cork and Kerry.