"In order to earn that money as a Nurse, you're literally working every day of the week for fifty weeks of the year"

Most nurses are paid around €50,000 including overtime according to figures released today unde...

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17.46 30 Apr 2019

"In order to earn that money as a Nurse, you're literally working every day of the week for fifty weeks of the year"

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17.46 30 Apr 2019

Most nurses are paid around €50,000 including overtime according to figures released today under Freedom of Information. A third of nurses are being paid between €40,000 and €60,000, while 87 HSE nursing staff were paid more than €100,000 in salary payments last year.

Liam Doran, the former General Secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, joined Ivan to give his take on Nurses pay.