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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)

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

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Mattie McGrath - To discuss the functions and operations of Tusla. Deputy Bernard Durkan - To discuss the current impasse at Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, and the lack of State access to the property from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Deputy Stanton again. I was in Barryscourt Castle on a fine summer's day. I commend the OPW staff on the fantastic work and their utter commitment to it. Many of them are from the area. I was really impressed by the work. As Deputy Stanton is aware, the initial phase of the projects, which have been ongoing for some time, involves progressively drying the entire castle structure,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I join the Minister of State in acknowledging the fantastic abilities and hard work of the OPW staff and the skill levels they have put in here. It is an amazing project and it will be of huge benefit to the local area. Will the Minister of State outline his vision for the castle in the context of the greater east Cork area and nationally given its importance, the plans for the curtilage of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The context here is that it is an Anglo-Norman castle, the seat of the Barry family, and one of the finest restored Irish tower houses. It dates back to 1392 and 1420. The castle has an outer bawn wall and largely intact corner towers. The ground floor contains a dungeon in which prisoners were dropped via the drop hole located on the second floor. I did not actually go near that point....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response. It is one of the finest castles and tower houses of its type in the country. It is also part of a wider plan for Carrigtwohill and east Cork, the Carrigtwohill 2040 project, and that will require further resources later on with respect to the purchase of land, possibly locally, for the parking of buses and that kind of thing. Is the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am aware from meeting people locally of this particular plan for in Carrigtwohill. I had a relatively short visit there but we and the OPW would always be looking at particular historical sites and the comparative advantage in terms of the area around it. That is something we are open to in terms of the OPW considering any proposal. In most cases when we are looking at them, they are...

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

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is planning budgetary measures to address the problem of staff shortages across key areas of the public service, and the pressure these shortages are putting on existing staff and the quality of services for the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29516/24]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public expenditure measures he is considering in the forthcoming budget to address the growing problem of labour and skill shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29517/24]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many areas of important public services such as mental health, disability, special needs, the health service and schools have chronic problems in recruiting and retaining enough people. We have staff shortages and this leads to a lot of hardship for many people who need those public services. Has the Minister any plans, especially in the context of the upcoming budget, to address this problem?

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

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 46 and 67 together. I thank the Deputy. The main way we have of addressing the challenges to which he referred is through the pay agreements that are in place up to 2026, aiming to bring forward wage increases of more than 10% over a two-and-a-half year period. That will be accompanied by the continued investment the Government will put in place in...