Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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1263. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a compensation scheme for families of health workers who have died from coronavirus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42261/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Work is ongoing in my Department on the development of a scheme to benefit the families of frontline healthcare workers who died from COVID-19, where it is likely that they contracted the virus in work.

I intend to bring a proposal to Government in respect of the scheme shortly. Details of the scheme will be made available once it has been approved by Government.

However, I can confirm that the proposed scheme is being developed to apply retrospectively to deaths of all frontline healthcare workers delivering services during the pandemic where they are likely to have contracted Covid-19 during the course of their work.