Taoiseach commits to meeting long covid survivors over pay issue

 Taoiseach  Micheál Martin said he will 'engage with the ministers responsible again', but added there are 'complexities and consequences' on the issue. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has committed to meeting survivors of long covid who had their payments removed last Christmas and said he will revisit the issue once more with the Department of Health.

Some 159 healthcare workers around the country lost access to the special leave with pay scheme on December 31, which had allowed them to be in receipt of full pay since contracting long covid.