Sir, – Some attention has been paid recently to the fact that paying our young doctors for work done seems to be beyond the capability of the HSE’s well-staffed bureaucracy.
Jennifer Bray reports that no payments of the Covid-19 bonus have been made to date to qualifying non-HSE staff, with the Department of Health saying that it is “complex” to administer the payment (“Large swathe of frontline healthcare workers yet to receive Covid-19 bonus payment”, News, August 12th).
Happily no such complexity is attending the payment of the bonus to health workers employed directly by the HSE or by section 38 agencies. As of last week, almost 110,000 such workers had received the payment representing the vast majority of eligible staff.
Those waiting for payment of salary arrears or of the bonus will, no doubt, find it reassuring that the Department of Health and the HSE can find a way when they put their minds to it. – Yours, etc,
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PAT O’BRIEN,
Rathmines,
Dublin 6.
