Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the further progress that has been made since her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 10 October 2007 regarding payments due under the final phase of the previous social partnership agreement Sustaining Progress and the first and second phase of the current social partnership agreement Towards 2016 which are due to ambulance personnel in the Health Service Executive west area who are members of SIPTU; when the National joint council will be in a position to recommend that payments be made; when these payments will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26916/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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As already stated in the response provided to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 10 October 2007, sanction for payment of pay increases due under the final phase of the previous Social Partnership Agreement, Sustaining Progress, and the first and second phase of the current Social Partnership Agreement, Towards 2016, was withheld in relation to ambulance personnel, HSE West, members of SIPTU, due to their non co-operation with a move to a new combined ambulance and fire control centre — Camp West (Computer Aided Mobile Project) in the HSE West.

My Department was advised by the Health Service Executive Employes Agency yesterday that this industrial relations dispute has now been resolved and that the ambulance personnel concerned are co-operating with implementation arrangements. Written confirmation of this is awaited from the joint secretaries of the National Joint Council. On receipt of such confirmation, the Secretary General of my Department will be in a position to make a final decision as to the appropriate effective date(s) for payment of the withheld increases.