Written answers

Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Department of Health

Health Services Staff

Photo of Cormac DevlinCormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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1018. To ask the Minister for Health the status of pay restoration for section 39 workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16812/21]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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For Section 39 agencies, an agreement was reached by parties at the Workplace Relations Commission in October 2018, in relation to a process of pay restoration, for staff employed by 50 pilot agencies. Pay restoration commenced in April 2019. Any outstanding balance would be paid in two equal amounts in 2020 and 2021, if due.

The agreement reached at the WRC noted that some of the organisations (approximately 250) which did not form part of the pilot phase are also likely to have pay restoration issues. It stated that a process of engagement to address this would commence in 2019. It is the organisations who were identified in that initial agreement reached at the WRC in 2018 that are included in this final phase of pay restoration.

The HSE have been costing this next phase of pay restoration and asked those eligible 250 organisations, who were included as part of the WRC agreement, to submit an application which will be subject to assessment and verification by the HSE.

Following engagement at the Workplace Relations Commission in early December, the parties reached an agreement in relation to the 250 organisations. A payment arrangement consisting of three phases was agreed with the first two payments to be made in 2021.

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