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Nurses to get backdated promised €100 pandemic grant

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Student nurses and midwives are set to receive a backdated promised Pandemic Placement Grant of €100 per week by 1 June, the Minister for Health has confirmed.

The payment applies for weeks when the students in question were on placement in health care settings during the pandemic, and was recommended in a review by Professor Tom Collins.

Addressing the INMO online Annual Delegate Conference, Minister Stephen Donnelly praised the students for overcoming unprecedented challenges posed by Covid-19 during their studies.

He confirmed that he was accepting Professor Collins' recommendation that the payment for the relevant placement weeks would be backdated to September of last year. "My department has instructed the HSE to process this payment,

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