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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, well-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I never said that. I acknowledged, stood up and said the Deputy was raising real issues but he should not put words in my mouth or suggest for a moment that I am not taking seriously the issues he is raising. What I am simply saying is that creating the image that our public services overall cannot get and keep people is wrong. It is wrong to say that. The wages we are now offering in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Every single one of what?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The wage agreements we have brought in. The Deputy has always said they are not enough.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not enough.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: He has always said they are not enough. We are now paying our public servants, across many parts of our public services, wages that are easily comparable with what is available in other parts of Europe, and in many cases ahead. I want to make that case regarding the scale of and funding for our public services.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Public Sector Pay

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline Tully: 47. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has had any discussions with the relevant Ministers or senior management at the Department of Health or the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in regard to addressing the existing pay parity that exists between workers in section 39 organisations and workers in HSE and section 38 organisations; if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the difference in pay and conditions between workers in section 38 and section 39 employments and those workers directly employed as public servants is making it more difficult to recruit and retain workers in key areas of public services where section 38 and section 39 agencies are the key providers of those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline Tully: 68. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if either the Minister for Health or the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has requested additional funding to address the existing pay parity that exists between workers in section 39 organisations and workers in HSE and section 38 organisations since he started in his present role; and if he will make...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline Tully: Has the Minister had any discussions with the Minister, Ministers of State or senior management at the Department of Health or the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with regard to addressing the existing pay disparity that exists between workers in section 39 organisations and workers employed directly by the HSE or section 38 organisations? If so, what...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 47, 65 and 68 together. The employees of agencies funded under section 38 of the Health Act 2004 are classified as public servants. They are subject to the standard salary scales for the health sector as well as having access, in the main, to a public service pension scheme. The employees are included in public service employment numbers. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Did the Minister group this with another question?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes, I am taking Questions Nos. 47, 65 and 68 together.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We are going to run out of time, I am afraid, so both the Minister and the Deputies can contribute once. We will run out of time in two minutes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline Tully: Last October, unions representing section 39 organisations and other sections reached an agreement for addressing pay disparity between section 39 organisations, the HSE and section 38 organisations. A proposal was agreed acknowledging that the workers in these organisations deserve pay equality. That pay agreement has not been honoured. Some of the workers have only received up to 65% of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just to underline the point, in my area, a lot of mental health services are delivered by section 39 organisations. In others, they might be delivered by the HSE. We discussed earlier the difficulty of recruiting people to CAMHS teams and the CDNTs. One of the additional problems compounding that difficulty is that those section 39 workers are on lesser pay and conditions than they would...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I was involved in this issue when it was dealt with in the Workplace Relations Commission last October. I was involved in the agreement that was reached to provide three different instalments to get up to 8%, with the final one due on 1 March 2024. My understanding is that all the staff employed in relevant organisations should have received their pay increases. That is my understanding....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)

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Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (9 Jul 2024)