Written answers

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Department of Social Protection

Departmental Staff

6:00 pm

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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Question 192: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the relationship between her and the 26 community welfare officers employed in the rent supplement unit in Santry, Dublin 9. [12534/11]

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Late last year agreement was reached between the Health Service Executive (HSE) and unions representing the Community Welfare Officers that the staff of the Community Welfare Service (CWS) would transfer to the Department of Social Protection with effect from 1st January 2011 on a secondment basis initially. The period of secondment is to last for 9 months until the end of September 2011. During this period these staff will remain employees of the HSE but are subject to the general direction and control of the Minster for Social Protection.

From 1 October 2011 it is intended that the staff of the CWS will be transferred fully to the Department as civil servants and will be accountable to the Minister in the same way as other civil servants. I have been advised that a number of staff in the CWS were employed in a temporary capacity by the HSE in 2010 for a period of six months, including some of the staff in the rents unit in question. These contracts were subsequently extended to June 2011 when they are to be gradually withdrawn.

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