Irish Nurses Deserve A Better Salary

Throughout the pandemic in Ireland the hardest tasks have fallen and continue to fall on the shoulders of our nurses and healthcare workers up and down the country. These amazing people have remained strong and keep working despite very demanding and challenging conditions. 

Countless businesses have been forced to close and many people have fallen ill or died from Covid, but despite all, our brave nurses have remained the backbone of the country and for this they deserve respect. 

The salary nurses recieve does not truly reflect the work they do and has been a much talked about subject for many years and little has been done to rectify the issue. The pandemic has truly crippled the country and we, the undersigned, feel that our nurses need to be better financially rewarded for their heroic efforts especially throughout the past year and into the future. 

Yes, it is a nice gesture to have a national round of applause and for everyone to light a candle in their window for the health care workers but there seriously needs to be a financial reward also. 

We are calling on the Irish government to acknowledge the current situation and reassess Irish nurses' salaries so that they are fair and really reflect the important work our nurses do day in and day out. 

A salary increase would incentivise newly qualified nurses to remain in Ireland rather than travel to better paid jobs abroad. 

We need the nurses and the nurses need to be valued.