Pandemic bonus paid to just 45% of agency staff

Many staff are still waiting for their €1,000 bonus  payment, which Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy describing it as 'hugely disappointing'. Picture: Damien Storan 

Less than half of agency staff working in the HSE have been paid the covid pandemic bonus.

In January of last year, the Government announced that frontline public healthcare workers who worked in an environment in which they were exposed to covid-19 would be given a one-off tax-free bonus of €1,000.