Pandemic bonus 'now being processed' by HSE

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly accepted it had taken far too long to process and finalise the pandemic bonus. File picture: Moya Nolan

Four months after it was approved, the €1,000 pandemic bonus for frontline healthcare staff is finally being paid out, the health minister has confirmed.

Stephen Donnelly said several thousand eligible frontline healthcare workers have received the payment in recent days and he hopes all the others will get their payment as quickly as possible.