More than 30 staff at two nursing homes have refused the COVID-19 vaccine as managers resorted to raffles to try and persuade them.
Bosses at the facilities in Dublin have called on the jabs
to be made mandatory because staff, who work directly with elderly patients, have chosen not to take them.
The HSE said legislation allows for workers to be redeployed if their refusal to get a vaccine puts other residents or staff at risk.
But Alison Woods, director of Nursing in Ailsbury and Ashbury private nursing homes, said there is limited capacity for redeployment.
She told Newstalk: “We’ve had raffles... offered €1,000 in cash prizes.
“Whether that was the reason they took the vaccine or not… we wanted to make sure we did everything we could to encourage people, as much as possible, to take it.
“People will be completely burned out. We need to do everything we can to keep COVID out going forward.”
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