John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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1667. To ask the Minister for Health if a pay award to senior managers in the HSE suggested by the review body report No. 42 will now be approved by his Department; the background to the issue; the reason the issue has not been resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34296/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Previous Public Service Stability Agreements did not allow for any cost increasing claims to be sanctioned. 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.