Two healthcare workers have spoken out after they had to leave the jobs they had kept during the pandemic at nursing homes due to issues over temporary accommodation.
They were both recently informed they could no longer avail of a Health Service Executive temporary accommodation scheme and were then placed in Direct Provision centres between 90-200km from their place of work.
This is despite the fact that the HSE confirmed to RTÉ News that the accommodation scheme is still operating. "It was so painful...
but I had no choice." That's how Maria (not her real name) sums up leaving her job in a nursing home in Dublin, where she had worked for over a year. "You feel like you don't want to leave them, you still want to help them, you get used