Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour)
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To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1137 if he will confirm the details of the annual leave agreement regarding holiday entitlements for non consultant hospital doctors between the Health Service Executive and the Irish Medical Organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50309/12]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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I welcome the agreement reached between the Health Service Executive and the Irish Medical Organisation on annual leave with the assistance of the LRC on 18 October 2012. Specifically the agreement provides that:

NCHDs who are required to undertake on-call on site or off-site in addition to their 39 hour week will receive a total leave allowance of 16 working days for the January to July rotation and 17 working days for the July to January rotation. This means that NCHDs who are required to undertake on-call are being granted their public holiday entitlements in advance;

NCHDs who work 39 hours on a Monday to Friday basis and do not participate in on-call will receive 12 working days for the January to July rotation and 12 working days for the July to January rotation and also each of the public holidays as a paid day off on the day of the holiday. If an NCHD who is not required to undertake on-call is on annual leave for the week incorporating a public holiday, 4 days annual leave is recorded. If such NCHDs are rostered on site or on-call on a public holiday he/she will receive a day off at another time; and

GP Registrars working in the community are to have their previous entitlement of three weeks annual leave per 6 month period reinstated.