Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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169. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which pay parity claims of medical scientists are being progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19939/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Under the current Public Service Agreement, Building Momentum, Sectoral Bargaining has been identified as the mechanism to deal with any outstanding claims.

Section 2.1 of Building Momentum states that ''a Sectoral Bargaining Fund will be established to be allocated within sectors under this Agreement. The purpose of the Sectoral Bargaining Fund process is to deal with outstanding adjudications, commitments, recommendations, awards and claims within the terms of the Fund and within the Exchequer funding limit in place. All public servants covered by the Agreement will be encompassed by this process''. Grade or sector based pay claims and outstanding adjudications and awards will have to be resolved within this process.

The HSE and Department are engaging with the representative bodies in the Health sector regarding the implementation of the Sectoral Bargaining provisions set out in Building Momentum.