This morning.
John writes:
Preparing for the protest today at the Nursing & Midwifery Board Hq, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock [Co Dublin] at midday. Protest is against the 80% increase in retention fees in the past two years. With 50% of the increase occurring this year alone. Enough is enough.
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Anybody know what retention fees are? Can you explain it to the ignorant masses like myself?
Hi, the retention fee is the fee we pay to our professional body. They are increasing it at an alarming rate. We get no support from them.
T
From googling, it appears to be a fee paid to the Irish Nurses board to stay registered as a nurse.
…I used to pay a fee to a Professional body. The fee was quite modest but there was no discernable return so I stopped. The fee was tax deductable though. Is it different for the nurses?
The nurses retention fee is €150 for 2015, up from €100 for 2014, up from (I think) €88 in 2013 (I’ll stand corrected on the 2013 figure).
If a nurse or midwife doesn’t pay this fee, they are no longer allowed to work as a nurse/midwife. The fee is not tax deductible.
As a nurse, you just have to pay it and that’s it.
End of.
Retention rate is calculated as: \frac{(NetIncome-Dividends)}{Net Income}
1. that was a reply to David j
2. it wasn’t supposed to look like that
3. it doesn’t answer his question anyway
Fair play Mikeyfex for trying, with an answer like that, you should get into politics… just leave out the honesty bit in No.3 and you’ll go places!
This government has lost the run of itself. PRSI for self employed (again something we get little or no benefit from) has been increased by 100% this year.
I support you nurses.
Apparently morale for nurses and midwives is at an all time low at present.
Labour pains
I fully support the nurses in this.