Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of bonus awarded to the manager of each hospital each year for the past three years; if she will provide the information per hospital in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40485/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Performance related award schemes are in operation in respect of the chief executive officers and the deputy chief executive officers in the Dublin Area Teaching Hospitals and the chief executive officers of voluntary hospitals. The awards made to eligible individuals are solely a matter for the board of the particular hospital, and must be in accordance with the principles set out by the review body. In this regard, awards should be related to the achievement of highly demanding and challenging targets and stretched objectives which are difficult, but not impossible to achieve. These targets should be set beyond what the normal ongoing requirements of the job. Details of awards made to individual officers under the scheme by the various boards are not disclosed on the basis that they are confidential to the individual concerned. The range of awards made in respect of 2005 to 2007 is as follows: