Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Health if the 2013 public sector redundancy scheme will be open to front-line health care workers in the Health Service Executive including nursing staff, nursing management, matrons; if they may apply for redundancy under this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4169/13]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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While normal retirement and redeployment will achieve part of the required reduction, a targeted programme of voluntary redundancy in certain parts of the health service will also be introduced as a means of achieving the full reductions required. The HSE has been asked to consider the most appropriate way of targeting this scheme in order to ensure that any impact on frontline service delivery is minimised. It is not possible at this stage to say if any frontline health care workers will be eligible to apply.