Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Barry Heneghan - PQ 31721-26
Deputy Heneghan asked about healthcare assistants pay. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and Public Affairs
Published: April 2026
Updated: June 2026
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE has assessed the pay disparity between healthcare assistants delivering HSE-funded home support services under tendered arrangements and those employed in Section 39 organisations performing comparable work; and the steps she will take to address any inequity arising.
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