[Mícheál Lehane] €1000 payment for healthcare staff working in Covid-19 environment passed by Cabinet. Plus public holiday pencilled in for March 18 this year and on St Brigid’s Day from 2023 onwards, details from @RTENewsPaulC

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  2. Ah here. What about the retail staff? I’m not one of them so wouldn’t benefit before anyone says. But they also dug us way out and were/are essential. I genuinely don’t think they got enough recognition.

    Edit: clearly people can’t thank more than one person/cohort at a time. Cool.

  4. More money and extra holidays for all, how is r/ireland going to try and swing this like it’s a bad thing now!

  8. Hurrah!!! I can buy a big slab of afforable cans now to get me through a 4 day weekend…….oh….wait

  9. Honestly, I’m really pleased to see this, tax free too! (I’m not a healthcare worker, just recognise the absolute shitshow they’ve had to deal with)

  18. I’m in retail and would obviously love some kind of bonus like this but anyone who says healthcare workers should not get a bonus after going through the last 2 years of shit is simply a bastard.

    They deserve it.

    other people in other sectors yes also deserve something but not everyone gets what they deserve unfortunately.

  25. Work in a private hospital that took a shit tonne from the HSE. I’ll get absolutely zero

  26. One4All vouchers for Healthcare workers.

    Digital Versions too so they can’t spend more than 50e in a single transaction.

    It’s going to be a very bumpy ride..

  28. Lots of the admin staff really do deserve it…….

    It’d be great to see it go to the frontline staff. Not sure how they can give it tax free when private employers can’t

  29. I doubt many would begrudge the €1000 for the healthcare staff, although I can see this going bad as in ending up paying to the entire HSE staff like 100,000 employees and then the gardai, teachers , bus & rail looking for theirs.

    Sure the money tree is just going to keep growing and growing, what can go wrong, as long as people know it still has to be paid back or inflated away.

  34. I’m absolutely all for the recognition of the hard work from the Frontline staff and a 1000 bonus (tax free ) is lovely

    however for the calls that it should be more or given to other type of workers we need to bear in mind at the end of the day the government isnt really paying this at all

    And for the boring stuff ….

    it’s us the other taxpayers so we need to bear this in mind because at the end of the day it’s everyone else(us) who essentially is making the contribution via our taxes collected in our budget management

    Personally if I had to pay an extra 50 quid in tax in a wage packet or something I wouldn’t be put out but alot of people are struggling as it is with the increase cost of living

    But fair play for the government (for once) on actually commiting to it and not being just a sound board and saying it for election votes etc

    I’m probably be down voted but when I hear calls now like all others eg (carers and more) or increase the 1k and these type of calls, the line has to be drawn somewhere

    And those here on Reddit who work on the front line in healthcare

    Thank you !

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