Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

About 123,750 staff in the HSE have received the recognition payment. I am disappointed that many of those entitled to the payment have still not received it. We have discussed this at Government level, particularly in terms of private nursing homes, hospices and section 39 organisations. We want to work out a much faster methodology. The HSE has been dealing with this and is anxious from an accountability point of view that anything done is above scrutiny and can be accounted for. That said, in respect of a number of sectors approved for this payment, in the Government's view there is disappointment that it has not happened and there is an urgency to get it done.

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