Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I again raise the issue of the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment. There was much fanfare about this payment and we all supported it but many workers have not received it.

They include many care assistants who work in the private sector. They were outside the Department of Health today and issued 1,700 individual letters to that Department on the non-payment of this. It is shambolic. Deputies get €1,000 because of the budget and front-line workers who were protecting our mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters still have not received that payment. It is an absolute embarrassment. Will the Taoiseach intervene personally to say these workers will get the payment as soon as possible?

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