Ministers to discuss pay for student nurses

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly will provide an update on a nurses pay report.

Ministers are set to discuss issues around pay for student nurses at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting.

In November, a review commissioned by the Department of Health and carried out by Professor Tom Collins recommended that the pandemic placement grant, a payment of €100 per week after tax, should be paid when student nurses are on hospital placements from January 2021 until the end of the pandemic.