James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 288: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if non-Irish national nurses working in public hospitals are paid on the official pay scale agreed by her Department for all nursing staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14657/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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All nursing staff, both Irish and non-Irish national, working in public hospitals and employed by the Public Health Service are paid in accordance with the official salary scales. Where nurses are, however, working under contract for private nursing employment agencies the rate of remuneration would be a matter between those nurses and the agencies involved. However, I understand that the pay scales applied by the agencies would in many instances closely adhere to the official rates.