Dáil debates
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Ceisteanna - Questions
Covid-19 Pandemic
1:50 pm
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Hold on a second and listen. The decision was taken to suspend clinical placements for all students and to offer all undergraduate nurses and midwives temporary healthcare assistant contracts. At the same time, the salary level for fourth-year internship students was raised to the healthcare assistant rate. The cost of that was about €41 million. That worked on that occasion.
The situation is much different now in terms of the impact on Covid itself. In April, there were approximately 900 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals. As of 8 November, the number was 285. Therefore, there is a different level of intensity in the hospitals regarding Covid.
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