Written answers

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Department of Health and Children

Health Service Staff

10:00 am

Photo of Billy TimminsBilly Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47072/10]

Photo of Mary HarneyMary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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The Incentivised Scheme of Early Retirement (ISER) was announced by the Minister for Finance in his Supplementary Budget Statement of 7 April 2009. This replaced all existing early retirement schemes, and no others were available after the closing date of the ISER, until the introduction of the Voluntary Early Retirment and Voluntary Redundancy schemes which I announced on 1 November 2010.

The Government decided in November 2010 that in view of the need to achieve a permanent reduction in the number employed in the public health sector from 2011 onwards, and to facilitate public health reform, that a targeted scheme should be introduced for certain grades in the health sector. As this scheme post dated the retirement date of the person in question, its terms were not, unfortunately, available to him.

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