Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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27. To ask the Minister for Health in view of recent controversies regarding the use of proceeds from shops and other facilities in institutions covered by section 39 of the Health Act, if he will consider examining the legislation covering such organisations with a view to ensuring that pay, salaries and conditions for senior officials in these organisations that are funded by the Exchequer can be scrutinised and revised accordingly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53977/13]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy is aware, the HSE's internal audit report on remuneration in health service providers funded under Section 38 of the Health Act 2004 has found that there are a variety of unapproved payments being made to senior managers. 2004. Staff of these organisations are public servants and are subject to Government pay policy.

Employees of Section 39 organisations are not public servants. They are not included in the HSE employment control ceiling, are not bound by the Department of Health Consolidated Salary Scales and are not members of a public service pension scheme. The Government, however is determined to ensure that public pay policy is respected across the health service and to that end, at my request, the Director General of the HSE has written to 353 Section 39 funded agencies in receipt of HSE funding of more than €250,000, requesting that they have due regard to public pay policy particularly in respect of senior managers.