The Health Minister is facing pressure to ensure all staff who worked in healthcare settings during the pandemic receive their €1,000 bonus payment before Christmas.
Thousands of contract staff, like cleaners and porters, who served on the frontline have yet to be paid the tax-free bonus, promised back in January.
Independent TD for Sligo-Leitrim, Marian Harkin thinks it's a disgrace that people who sacrificed so much have been left waiting so long:
"We are trying to get the Minister to ensure that these people are paid. I think most people listening would be flabbergasted to think that this could happen. I mean, how could we let this happen? It's time now to get the payment to those people who stood on the bridge."
