Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person who ultimately made the decision to exclude certain members of all ranks of Dublin Fire Brigade from the pandemic payment; the information they are working off in relation to same; and the person or body that supplied them with the information. [3811/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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On 19 January 2022, the Government announced their decision to make a Covid-19 recognition payment for frontline healthcare workers to recognise their unique role during the pandemic. This once-off payment is ring fenced to staff who were ordinarily onsite in Covid-19-exposed healthcare environments within the period from 1 March 2020 to 30 June 2021. It applies to eligible staff in the public health service and six other specific cohorts, one of which is staff employed by Dublin Fire Brigade to deliver paramedic services on behalf of the Health Service Executive. Accordingly, the recognition payment is payable only to those employees of Dublin Fire Brigade who delivered such services in the period in question. I understand that all staff of Dublin Fire Brigade who they confirmed met this criteria have now received payment.