HSE rejects appeal to receive extra payment on grounds contact tracers were employed by outside agency
There were about 1,700 people trained in contact tracing with more than 800 people deployed at peak during the worst wave of the pandemic in January 2022. The majority were agency staff.
A spokeswoman for the department said it could not comment on the eligibility of individual cases. She said the criteria for paying the bonus included but was not limited to those working in a frontline “Covid-exposed” environment and the period of work in such an environment.
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