Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm whether a non-Catholic chaplain will be appointed to a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 8 and paid by the Health Service Executive according to the salary scale offered to Catholic chaplains; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42711/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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Roman Catholic hospital chaplains are remunerated on a fixed salary basis, based on a full-time contract of employment. Service level arrangements may apply for other denominations of hospital chaplains, depending on the service requirement of patients, relatives and staff at the particular hospital. Pro-rata arrangements, based on the existing fixed salary, may apply in respect of part-time hospital chaplains.

With regard to the specific appointment of a hospital chaplain to an individual hospital, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.