Nurses to get €20 weekly rise in ‘win-win’ deal

Nurses are set to receive a pay boost of an average of €20 per week following an agreement that will see them taking on four tasks usually carried out by doctors.

The deal essentially sees the restoration of the “unsocial hour” payment which nurses received for working in the evenings.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), Siptu Nursing, and the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) took part in discussions as part of the Lansdowne Road Agreement, during October and November of last year, to agree the expansion of nursing/midwifery practice and restore premium pay of time plus one sixth which was removed from nurses/midwives under the Haddington Road Agreement.