David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Earlier today, the Taoiseach commended public servants on their response in handling Covid-19, and rightly so. Many of those public servants, however, have still not been paid the pandemic bonus payment. Members of the Defence Forces and the fire services have not been paid, and then there are tens of thousands of agency workers, nursing home staff and many others who have also still not been paid. My understanding is that the Government is now looking at hiring a consultancy firm to figure out how those staff are going to be paid. We have still not worked out how they are going to be paid, never mind when they are going to be paid. This stings for those workers still waiting. Can some clarity be given regarding the timeframes for when these workers will be paid? I ask this because the situation is unacceptable.

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