Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of home helps employed in County Mayo at present; the hourly rate of pay they receive; and if they have received their benchmarking increase. [13655/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Deputy's question relates to human resource management issues within the Health Service Executive. As this is a matter for the executive under the Health Act 2004, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and reply directly to the Deputy. I am aware however that my Department approved the payment of the increases due to all eligible grades under the final phase of parallel benchmarking, which included home helps, on 3 June 2005. The current annual salary scale for home helps range from €25,590 to €28,451, paypath, and €25,943 to €27,098, non-paypath.