Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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161. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting three additional whole-time equivalent senior pharmacists for the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics. [43868/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the first point on the salary scale for a senior pharmacist is €61,641. When 12% PRSI is added to this figure, the cost per new senior pharmacist in Year 1 would come to €69,037.92.

The cost of recruiting three additional full-time senior pharmacists for the NCPE would amount to approximately €207,113 in Year 1.