Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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72. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a supplementary budget to provide money to the Health Service Executive to enable arrears due to social care workers in the Brothers of Charity and Ability West - twilight premium time payments - to receive their payments; when this estimate is likely to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35902/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Whilst it is too early to be definitive on the requirement for Vote 38 in 2015, it is clear that the health sector will require a Supplementary Estimate. The HSE is pro-actively engaged in internal efforts to maximise savings and to ensure that additional measures are identified and safely implemented to mitigate any projected deficits which are within HSE direct control. My Department continues to work closely with the HSE to ensure that the greatest degree of budgetary control is exercised.

The amount of supplementary funding required is currently under discussion between my Department, the HSE and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.