INMO: Nurses are calling for compensation for their work during the pandemic

The group will go before the Oireachtas Health Committee later today and say the vaccine rollout has been 'haphazard'.

The committee will also hear 1,400 people have picked up the virus in hospital in the space of nine weeks, and 124 of them died. 

Professor Gerry Killeen from UCC says the rise in hospital-acquired cases was inevitable:

"Of course I'm concerned about the cases and the deaths in hospitals, but that's just a function of transmission in the broader community. Hospitals can't be running in a vacuum separated from the rest of the country. Everything joins up, all the dots join up in our society. I think that people working in the hospitals have done their absolute best but there's no such thing as 100% effective forcefield to keep these things out."