Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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550. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding nurses who are injured while on duty and covered by the injury grant or the social welfare injury benefit resulting in different rates of pay while out sick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49581/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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An Injury Grant Scheme is provided for under Section 12 of the HSE Employee Superannuation Scheme 2010 (SI 362/2010). The scheme provides for the granting of an allowance to an officer who is injured in the discharge of their duty, specifying that the allowance shall not exceed 5/6ths of their remuneration.

Any social welfare benefits, which are payable to the employee, are subtracted from this grant payment and the net sum is then multiplied by the person’s degree of impairment to calculate the injury allowance. This results in different rates of injury grant being paid to the employee based on the seriousness of their injury. The allowance can subsequently be revised in light of changes in level of impairment.