Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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479. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff employed by the Health Service Executive; the annual cost of these for 2013; for 2014; the estimated projected annual cost for 2015; for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34006/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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By year end, if current progress can be maintained, hospitals will have reduced total agency costs by €25m in 2015 compared to 2014. Within this, 31 of our 49 Hospitals are expected to reduce total agency costs by €39m.

In respect of the specific data requested by the Deputy, I have asked the HSE to respond directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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480. To ask the Minister for Health the net reduction in staffing, in whole-time equivalent, across the health service who have left the Health Service since the embargo on recruitment in total and by category; the total yearly saving to the payroll bill as a result of these reductions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34007/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.