Written answers
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Department of Finance
Health Service Staff
11:00 pm
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 503: To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria applied by his Department in considering the grant or refusal of an exemption by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33521/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 505: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the exemptions sought by the Health Service Executive, including job and grade, to the recruitment embargo outlining which exemptions were granted and which exemptions were refused in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33520/10]
Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 503 and 505 together.
The Employment Control Framework 2010-2012 for the Health Sector (Department of Health & Children, HSE and Voluntary Bodies) provides for an annual reduction of 1,520 whole time equivalents in the numbers employed. It allows the HSE to fill vacancies in specific exempted grades in key front line services and to create a limited number of new posts in those exempted grades. The exempted grades are:
Medical consultants;
Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapist;
Clinical Psychologist and Counsellor;
Social Worker;
Emergency Medical Technician;
Psychiatric Nurses;
Public Health Nurse and Nurse Sponsorship Scheme;
National Cancer Control Programme specialist grades.
Provided that it is making satisfactory progress with its employment control framework targets, the HSE also has discretion to fill a limited number of posts on exceptional grounds to support the development of integrated health care and its transformation programme. There must be suppression of posts of equivalent value in non-frontline areas for each new exempted posts or each exception made.
Prior to the Employment Control Framework 2010-2012, the HSE required the specific approval of the Department of Health & Children in the first instance and then my Department to any exceptions. Details of exceptions requested and granted by my Department prior to the 2010-2012 framework were included in my response to PQ ref no: 21792/10 on Tuesday 25th May last and for your convenience are set out in the following table.
No. | Requesting Body | Purpose of Sanction | Grade | No. of posts | Decision | No. of posts granted | Date Sanctioned | Comment |
1 | HSE | Front line post | Senior Locum | 0.6 | 3. No decision to date | 0 | Further info awaited | |
2 | Galway University Hospital | Critical management post | General Manager | 1 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 1 | 17/06/2009 | |
3 | HIQA | Level of expenditure on external advice | Legal Advisor (AP1) | 1 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 1 | 31/07/2009 | |
4 | HIQA | Operational reasons | Regional Operations Manager (PO) | 1 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 1 | 31/07/2009 | |
5 | HIQA | Value for money | Health Technology Assessment — AP1 | 2 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 2 | 31/07/2009 | |
6 | HIQA | Value for Money | HTA — Engineer Grade I | 2 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 2 | 31/07/2009 | |
7 | HIQA | Value for Money | HTA — Engineer Grade III | 2 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 2 | 31/07/2009 | |
8 | HSE | New HSE structure | Regional Operation Director (Assist Nat,. Dir) | 4 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 4 | 07/07/2009 | |
9 | HSE | New HSE structure | Care Group (Assistant National Director) | 4 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 4 | 07/07/2009 | |
10 | Mental Health Commission | Front line post | Consultant Psychiatrist | 5 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 5 | 31/07/2009 | |
11 | Mental Health Commission | Front line post | Assistant Inspector (Occupational Therapist) | 1 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 1 | 31/07/2009 | |
12 | Mental Health Commission | Service reasons | Staff Officer (Temp Contract Renewal) | 1 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 1 | 31/07/2009 | |
13 | National Treatment Purchase Fund | Fair Deal requirements | EO / HEO | 6 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 6 | 31/07/2009 | |
14 | Central Mental Hospital | Front line post | Mental Health Nurses | 23 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 23 | 31/08/2009 | |
15 | St Loman's Hospital | Front line post | Mental Health Nurses | 36 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 36 | 31/08/2009 | |
16 | Temple Street Hospital | Critical nursing management post | Director of Nursing | 1 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 1 | 20/10/2009 | |
17 | Galway University Hospital | Key post for flu pandemic | Chief Medical Scientist | 1 | 3. No decision to date | 0 | Further info awaited | |
18 | HSE | Front line post | General Dental Surgeon | 3 | 1. Yes, application was approved | 2 | 25/11/2009 | Sanction was only given for two of the three posts |
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