andMr. T. Lynch asked the Minister for Health why sanction has not yet been issued by his Department to the Hospitals Commission for the revision of salaries in respect of the following grades of staff in voluntary hospitals: tutor sisters, theatre sisters, home sisters, night sisters, night superintendents, assistant matrons and matrons.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Revision of Salaries of Nursing Staffs.
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Revision of the salaries of the senior nursing staffs in voluntary hospitals is a matter for the individual hospital authorities. I am concerned in the matter only to the extent to which the remuneration of staffs forms part of the expendiure of the hospitals to which grants towards revenue deficits are paid from the Hospitals Trust Fund, and in that connection it has been the practice, when revisions of salaries of health authorities nursing staffs have been settled, to arrange that the Hospitals Commission will notify the voluntary hospitals of such revisions and inform them that expenditure necessary to provide for corresponding increases in salaries of comparable staffs in their hospitals will rank for recoupment pari passu with other revenue expenditure.
When the revisions for senior nursing staffs in the local authority service, and the effective date or dates for such revisions, have been settled in the near future, the customary notification will be issued by the Hospitals Commission to the voluntary hospitals, the authorities of which will decide to what extent they are to be applied to their staffs.