Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Supplementary)
1:50 pm
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
There is a similar situation with section 38 and section 39 workers.
Pensioners being paid by those organisations are reliant on the HSE, presumably, to process increases in their pensions. That is not happening either. When I ask about former SOS employees in Kilkenny who were employed under one of these sections, it is up to the employer to pay them but the employer is reliant on the HSE to provide funding to pay them, so they are not being paid their proper pensions. I bring it to the Minister's attention because it is an issue. Employees have worked hard to get to their pensions and are now being deprived of their proper pensions. It is difficult to deal with an organisation like St. Patrick's SOS because it is multilayered. By the time you get to the person making the decision, they come to me, I ask a parliamentary question and am told it is a matter for the organisation itself. However, it is not. Maybe the Minister can redirect that query.
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