Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason six executives or higher executives in the National Treatment Purchase Fund were exempt from the moratorium; the level of salary these executives earn; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25905/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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In September 2007, my Department sanctioned eight temporary negotiator posts at Grade VII level, remunerated at €47,015 - €57, 015 (1 January, 2010) for the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to enable it to undertake additional responsibilities assigned to it under the Fair Deal programme. Those responsibilities related to the negotiation of private nursing home bed prices under the programme. All costs associated with the recruitment of those temporary staff were met from within the NTPF's existing financial resources. The temporary contract appointments were made on a phased basis, and most of those recruited have completed their assignment and are no longer employed by the NTPF. A number of the positions had not been filled by the time the general moratorium on recruitment in the public service was introduced, and a partial exemption from the moratorium was accordingly obtained by my Department from the Department of Finance in order to facilitate the filling of the remaining posts.