Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is déjà vuagain. I am once again bringing to the floor the non-payment of the pandemic recognition payment. It appears we have a very serious situation in community healthcare organisation, CHO, 5, which covers my constituency of Wexford. Home support resource managers there have not received the payment while their counterparts in CHOs 1, 4 and 7 have. I understand the decision not to allow the payment to these managers in CHO 5 has been appealed with no response. We have a recruitment and retention crisis and now we have morale on the floor in quite a large CHO. There managers provided the same services and duties throughout the pandemic, regardless of where in the country they were placed. I am asking for someone in the Department of Health to clarify why some CHOs have made this payment to their home support resource managers.

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