Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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466. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE service plan 2015 directive regarding rates of pay for sleepovers in the intellectual disability and children and family sector applies to all qualified personnel working in both public and private facilities; and if so, the amount of that rate. [39518/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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In September 2014, a Labour Court Recommendation (LCR 20837) issued following a hearing between the HSE and IMPACT, SIPTU and Unite trade unions. The hearing was in respect of the terms under which social care workers and related grades are employed in the children's residential services and the Intellectual Disability Sector in relation to sleepover arrangements.

Following the Labour Court hearing, the Court recommended to the parties that the staff concerned should be paid the minimum wage hourly rate in respect of each hour spent on sleepover in excess of 39 hours.

The Labour Court Recommendation concerned the parties to the hearing, the employer, in this case, being the HSE. Neither the HSE nor the Minister have a role in relation to private service providers. It is a matter for private employers to negotiate salaries with their staff as part of the terms and conditions of their employment.