Tánaiste to seek Cabinet approval on bonus scheme to keep specialists in air corps

Simon Harris will tell Cabinet that there is a worldwide shortage of air traffic control personnel and proposed measures are needed to help return the air corps to a 24/7 service. File Picture: Sasko Lazarov/© RollingNews.ie

A bonus scheme to incentivise highly skilled specialists to stay in the air corps is to be rolled out amid serious shortages that are impacting operations.

Tánaiste and the minister for defence, Simon Harris, will seek Cabinet approval to immediately extend a service commitment scheme — which currently includes annual bonus payments of around €22,000 to air corps pilots — to air traffic control personnel.