Frontline healthcare workers to get Covid bonus 'in next payroll'

Earlier this week, healthcare unions criticised delays in establishing the pandemic special recognition payments and wrote to officials in the Department of Health and the HSE to request an update. File Picture: iStock

Frontline healthcare workers will receive their pandemic special recognition payment in their next pay packet, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has said.

Mr Donnelly said the payment, which will amount to either €600 or €1,000, would be paid to eligible HSE staff "as soon as possible."