Sandra McLellan (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

According to the HSE, employees of section 39 agencies are not public servants and are not directly bound by the Department of Health's consolidated salary scales. Do senior managers have to adhere to public sector pay scales? Where do workers in section 39 organisations at lower grades stand? It appears that the pay relationship between section 39 workers and the public sector applies only when cuts are being made. Is it the case that none of the benefits of the public sector, such as security of tenure or pension provisions, apply? If so, what action has the HSE taken to address this anomaly?