Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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382. To ask the Minister for Health his policy position regarding the return of funding lost during the recession to section 39 organisations to enable them to restore pay to their employees in line with the pay restoration measures proposed by the Lansdowne Road Agreement for public sector workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21483/17]

Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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383. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department directed the HSE not to make funding available in 2017 to section 39 organisations to meet pay restoration requirements under the Lansdowne Road Agreement thereby creating a substantial inequality between the pay of section 39 employees and their HSE and section 38 counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21484/17]

Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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384. To ask the Minister for Health if provision has been made by his Department for section 39 organisations providing vital social care services to restore their funding in order to meet the various pay restoration requirements now due under the Lansdowne Road Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21485/17]

Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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385. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the HSE’s instruction that section 39 organisations should use the industrial mechanisms of the State to resolve an issue relating to the restoration of funding lost during the recession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21486/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 382 to 385, inclusive, together.

Under section 39 of the Health Act 2004, the HSE has in place Service Level Agreements with voluntary providers which set out the level of service to be provided for the grant to the individual organisation. Any individuals employed by these section 39 organisations are not HSE employees and therefore, the HSE has no role in determining the salaries or other terms and conditions applying to these staff. It should also be made clear that as the staff of these Section 39 organisations are not public servants, they were not subject to the provisions of the Public Service Agreements or the FEMPI legislation which imposed the associated pay reductions. Accordingly, any arrangements offered by each service provider in relation to its employee terms and conditions, including rates of pay, may vary.