Provision of overtime pay for Defence Forces must be considered, say military officersRACO says pay relativities between military and other public service staff must be brokenWed Feb 17 2021 - 19:24
New seasonal job permit to be introduced for short-stay workersSystem lacks flexibility and needs update to be more effective, Oireachtas committee toldTue Feb 16 2021 - 17:00
St John of God says transfer of disability, mental-health services to HSE to go aheadCare provider says HSE has hinted at new funding proposals for it but cites absence of concrete measuresTue Feb 16 2021 - 13:09
EU agency urges immediate and tough steps to prevent fresh Covid-19 waveECDC advises national authorities to speed up Covid vaccinations of highest risk groupsTue Feb 16 2021 - 08:04
Hotel quarantine may cost up to €2,000 per person under Government plansNo final decision taken on the figure, with ‘hard questions’ about regime outstandingMon Feb 15 2021 - 22:16
CIÉ transport workers seek extra 10 days of leave over pandemicHealth staff already pressing Government for Covid-19 ‘compensation’Mon Feb 15 2021 - 19:34
Number claiming pandemic unemployment payment falls by 3,600More than 477,000 on benefit but Minister welcomes first fall in applications since DecemberMon Feb 15 2021 - 16:32
Driving tests for essential workers cancelled due to cold, claims unionRoad Safety Authority rejects that tests being cancelled ‘arbitrarily’ over low temperaturesMon Feb 15 2021 - 16:28
Prospect of public pay deal ratification boosted after backing by several unionsMedical laboratory scientists whose members carry out Covid testing vote to reject proposalFri Feb 12 2021 - 19:24
Siptu and the INTO row in behind new public pay dealMid-ranking gardaí and military officers say they were excluded from talks on agreementThu Feb 11 2021 - 17:13
Teacher union ASTI votes against new public pay agreementProposed deal fails to resolve pay differences for recently recruited teachers, claims unionWed Feb 10 2021 - 16:40
Virtually all health staff groups seeking compensation for working in pandemicNurses and health group of unions have lodged separate claimsTue Feb 09 2021 - 20:57
Medical card access for people with terminal illnesses to be doubledExpansion covers patients with motor neurone disease, advanced cancer, heart failureTue Feb 09 2021 - 20:43
Public Accounts Committee to seek stall on hiring of Department of Health chiefPAC to ask for analysis of decision to raise salary for civil service role to €292,000Tue Feb 09 2021 - 19:01
Healthcare workers ‘abandoned by State’ after schools closed, committee toldDepartment of Health rules out meeting additional costs of childcare for health staffTue Feb 09 2021 - 13:36
Covid-19: Nurses seek compensation for working during pandemicINMO says health staff in Northern Ireland and in France receiving special paymentsTue Feb 09 2021 - 00:01
Vaccinators will travel to people’s homes if ‘absolutely necessary’ to administer jab, HSE saysGovernment hopeful that construction sector will be able to restart work from March 5thMon Feb 08 2021 - 13:11
State releases €30m to supply new medicinesDeal with pharma sector comes as talks on new drug pricing deal deferred until MayMon Feb 08 2021 - 07:47
HSE to establish 40 vaccination centres across the countryRevised programme to vaccinate the over-70s to begin next weekMon Feb 08 2021 - 03:40
Coalition concern over EU law on minimum wage and worker rightsLabour accuses Varadkar of seeking to ‘hobble’ draft directive on entitlementsSun Feb 07 2021 - 19:06
Up to 40 large vaccination centres to be introduced across the State - HSE chief saysOlder people unable to get to new facilities for Covid-19 jabs ‘will not be left behind’, vows Paul ReidSun Feb 07 2021 - 18:07
First 21,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arriving in State is ‘big day’ , Donnelly saysGPs hope to have all over 85s vaccinated by March 8th under revised planSat Feb 06 2021 - 17:47
Large-scale Covid vaccination clinics to be set up in Dublin, Cork, Galway for over-70sState burning through €5.5bn coronavirus contingency fund faster than anticipated, Ministers toldSat Feb 06 2021 - 08:30
HSE issues new guidelines on order of vaccinations for healthcare workersFrontline healthcare staff will be asked to register online to schedule appointmentFri Feb 05 2021 - 21:11
Student radiographers to press Government for hospital placement payment‘Scandalous’ students making ‘essential contribution’ are not recognised for work – SiptuFri Feb 05 2021 - 13:59
Donnelly confident 70% of GPs can provide Pfizer/Moderna vaccinesCovid-19 vaccine rollout will see ‘tricky end point’ in remote areas - Colm Henry saysFri Feb 05 2021 - 13:49
Legislative proposals for paid domestic violence leave to be brought forward by end of yearMinster for Children Roderic O’Gorman says development of such leave is ‘personal priority’Fri Feb 05 2021 - 13:01
RTÉ staff on more than €40,000 facing pay cutsProposal part of €60m cost-saving plan that also includes voluntary redundanciesWed Feb 03 2021 - 17:45
Taoiseach told Cabinet of enhanced health chief pay but not €80k rise detail - MinisterMcGrath says €292,000 pay for secretary general post ‘commensurate with responsibilities’Tue Feb 02 2021 - 19:38
Officials warned Minister of implications of health post pay hikeFiles show Donnelly wanted secretary general post filled quickly on permanent basisTue Feb 02 2021 - 17:25
HSE pays over €3m to Revenue after self-review reveals liabilityOfficial papers suggest more than half of payment related to payroll taxesMon Feb 01 2021 - 02:40
Concern and political pressure ever-present in shifting vaccine rolloutAnalysis: January’s see-saw experience may mirror rest of year in Ireland and the EUSat Jan 30 2021 - 01:00
Student nurses who had placements shelved ‘rehired via agencies’Nursing union claims ‘this is an incredibly expensive way to provide much-needed staff’Fri Jan 29 2021 - 21:27
Covid-19: HSE to introduce antigen testing in hospitals this weekNew arrangement should facilitate screening of frontline staff for virus, INMO saysFri Jan 29 2021 - 09:41
Clinical placements for student nurses to be further suspended, Siptu saysUnion says it is advised placements likely to be re-introduced on a phased basisThu Jan 28 2021 - 22:46
Pay dispute talks between Government and public health specialists to continueDoctors have been campaigning for public health to become a consultant-led serviceWed Jan 27 2021 - 20:37
Majority of childcare workers struggling to make ends meet, says SiptuSurvey for union says just 22% of early years educators earned more than €12.30 per hourWed Jan 27 2021 - 18:16
Target to have all adults vaccinated by September ‘contingent on deliveries’Adjustments to March plans may be needed following delays with AstraZeneca, says MinisterTue Jan 26 2021 - 20:58
Covid-19 vaccinations for over-70s expected to begin as planned in mid-FebruaryAstraZeneca vaccine hold-up may lead to delays in inoculating older peopleMon Jan 25 2021 - 00:30
Covid-19: Ministers to consider intensifying checks on people quarantining after travelFines for breaches of stay-at-home requirements under considerationMon Jan 25 2021 - 00:01
Biden administration to continue restrictions on travel to US from IrelandFurther 23 deaths and 1,378 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Republic on SundaySun Jan 24 2021 - 22:16
New talks aimed at resolving threatened public health specialists strikeDepartment of Public Expenditure says new public pay deal is ‘final’Wed Jan 20 2021 - 20:27
Garda trainees on frontline ‘receiving 30% of starting salary’GRA says trainees sent out to stations during Covid crisis experiencing financial hardshipWed Jan 20 2021 - 19:01
Nearly 500,000 people over 70 to receive Covid vaccine from their GPFamily doctors, pharmacists welcome new €91m vaccination deal with GovernmentTue Jan 19 2021 - 17:07
Paid contracts for student nurses would ‘undermine training model’, Cabinet toldINMO again urges reintroduction of paid contracts for those on clinical placementTue Jan 19 2021 - 14:50
Cabinet approves €91m plan to bring GPs, pharmacists into vaccine programmeScheme will become key to the widespread vaccination effort, says DonnellyTue Jan 19 2021 - 14:39
Beacon Hospital signs deal with HSE on access to facilities during pandemicPrivate hospital was last to enter agreement to provide additional care to public patientsTue Jan 19 2021 - 13:32
Covid surge: Pausing student nurse training ‘the right thing to do’Training for first, second, third-year students being suspended ‘just for a few weeks’Sun Jan 17 2021 - 15:13
Covid-19: INMO calls for clarity on suspension of student nurse placementsMove aimed at freeing up experienced staff for frontline duties is to be reviewed in FebruarySun Jan 17 2021 - 08:10
Varadkar: €292,000 salary for top health job likely to lead to others seeking parityNew secretary general of Department of Health will be highest paid civil servantFri Jan 15 2021 - 19:52
