Ciara Conway (Waterford, Labour)
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701. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to issues faced by residential health care staff working on sleepover duty in view of the fact that some residential care staff are expected to work 63 hours per week instead of the statutory 48; the reasons for same; if sleepover duty, where a member of staff is on call while working overnight is part of the working week and if it is treated as such for pay purposes; her further views on whether these hours are in breach of EU and Irish working time legislation; her views on the low levels of hourly pay associated with sleepover duty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19287/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Child and Family Agency that the issue raised is currently before the Labour Relations Commission. It would therefore be inappropriate for me to comment further at this point in time.