Extra Bank Holiday and other compensation for Covid

Everyone did their job and it wasn't quite the hellish scenario been painted here for healthcare workers. It's frightening how 1bn is just such a small arbitrary figure been thrown around now like it's nothing.

How would you know tbf ?

You have denied Covid on the forum all the way so I don't think you quite understand how it was .

Either that or you are on a windup , which is possible too .

The only people mentioning a billion are you and others seeking to exaggerate the sums .

That number was a negotiation ploy by a government financial head to try to ensure that everyone is up in arms about " all public servants applying for this and that " and it is being quoted by some here disingenuously as if that is what is being sought.

That is not what has been or is being sought by us nurses as I have said a few posts back .

The maximum amount would come to €350 to €500 million which is less than what the HSE should be getting back in refunds for their misspend on incorrect PPE and useless outdated ventilators .

Exactly, public service is what you signed up for, and that is what was expected of you. Job security, excellent pension is your reward.

Private companies who benefitted should be the ones paying bonuses not the taxpayer.

There should be no further unnecessary expenditure of taxpayers money on this pandemic.

Stupid idea to be honest!

Health service can't cope with the few staff that they have already!

Everyone should feel entitled to something if this is the case!

Where will it end?

And your last post there ...?

Nurses did not sign up for all the extra that they were subject to through the pandemic.

We are looking at less than 350million but of course it serves your purpose to misrepresent by saying 1 billion.

I referenced this in my earlier post above and again at least 3 times more already . So if you continue to ignore what is being posted , not much point in replying .

Look 300m 500m 1bn, whatever sector gets it, it's **** galling when so many services are crying out for funding. Funding that would make an enormous difference to people's lives. This benefits no one.

Public health care workers, working through a public health crisis. There is nothing to sign up to extra this is all in the job description.

And of course ignore where I keep saying this 1bn figure includes other sectors not just healthcare workers.

Let's waive all taxes in hospitality for one bank holiday, we all have a big party on the cheap and clap for the HSE. Everyone has a good time and the healthcare workers celebrated.

 I'm really not sure about the merits of this. I do believe that the public service and some HCWs should certainly get some recognition but as people who work in the health system know not everybody contributed in the same way or made the same efforts. The  trouble is with something like this you can't really distinguish between groups without producing unnecessary public squabbles about it. And what kind of rewards do you give those non public service people, like those in retail?

To me the public holiday idea is of more benefit to everybody in the sense of recognizing that we have all been through this. Rewarding specific groups is going to be very expensive and it's already concerning that the government seems to be talking about tax cuts thus adding an extra layer to our debt. It also smells like electioneering and would be absolutely typical of the two larger parties to attempt to fence off the public service vote.

In the end I suspect they may come up with some type of compromise and rewards at lower levels than are currently being bandied about. 

And that's all it is but when have you ever known the public sector not put there hand out.

What about what the NHS just did. 500 quid bonus, surely that gets done for about 50m.

I guess you definitely deserve some sort of reward..

This is a post which typifies the chip on the shoulder about nurses and doctors and anybody earning a decent wage for their work and qualifications.

Of course all those other essential workers should be recognised for their work throughout this . I have said so from the start . Nobody who had to go to their regular place of work and was facing the public through Covid should be forgotten in this .

But to praise this work and discount all that frontline healthcare workers have done , which was way above their contracted or even expected duties, is just trolling from you and that other poster( who talks about how quiet private hospitals were and other ignorant ramblings . )

@Economics101 of course that number you quote would include ALL frontline healthcare workers .

It palls in significance to PUP payments and Wage Subsidy Sceme payments, which were all deemed right and proper as well .

I think they should only give bonus to those who worked directly in covid wards . Otherwise it's a free for all and impossible to draw the line. Although you're probably going to have porters who transferred patients to ICU claiming they worked directly with covid patients so the line isn that clear this way either :-/