Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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137. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take with the Health Service Executive to ensure that moneys, in the sum of €7.5 million, owed to social care workers in Counties Galway and Roscommon, in respect of twilight premium time payments, and which have been confirmed by the Labour Court as being properly due and owing over the past eight years, will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17960/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The HSE has advised that following a national engagement with staff representatives, agreement was made by the HSE to pay unsocial hours to designated staff.

This payment commenced on 1 January 2015 and no agreement was made in relation to arrears.

Currently the issue of a backdated claim for arrears is being reviewed by the State’s industrial relations processes and the claim is currently before the Labour Relations Commission.