asked the Minister for Health, in relation to the sale of land at Clogheen, Blarney Road, Cork, if the Southern Health Board are now in receipt of the total amount of moneys due as a result of completion of that transaction; the overall amount of money realised as a result of the sale; and the amount per acre which this sum represents.
Written Answers. - Southern Health Board Services.
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Some of the transactions in relation to the sale of lands at Clogheen, Cork have yet to be finalised and consequently the full amount of the proceeds from the sales has yet to be paid over to the health board.
To date £65,000 has been paid over to the health board and a further £95,600 is expected to be paid over in the next week. The total amount realisable on completion of the sales is £290,000. The overall amount represents a sum of £2,079 per acre.
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asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who are in the employment of the Southern Health Board in positions vacated by staff members who left the services under the voluntary redundancy scheme in 1987-88; the staff projections which were carried out in advance of the implementation of the voluntary redundancy scheme in the Southern Health Board area; and on whose decision successful applicants for the voluntary redundancy scheme were finally selected.
Some 300 staff of the Southern Health Board availed of the opportunity of accepting the terms of the early retirement-voluntary redundancy scheme in the two years 1987 and 1988. Five employees of the board are now in positions vacated under the scheme. Approval for the filling of these five essential supervisory posts was granted by my Department on the basis that consequential vacancies were suppressed or filled through redeployment.
Examination of staffing levels prior to the implementation of the early retirement-voluntary redundancy scheme was carried out by the management of the board. In general, the terms were available to staff considered surplus to requirements as a result of rationalisation of services. I stipulated that where it was considered that essential services would be adversely affected by agreeing to permit certain staff to take early retirement then such applications should be refused.
The selection of applicants for early retirement-voluntary redundancy was a matter for the Southern Health Board.
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asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that travelling expenses due to the front line staff members of the Southern Health Board for 1987 and 1988 have not been paid; if so, the action he proposes to take on the matter; and if expenses due to board members for the same period have been paid.
I can assure the Deputy that travelling expenses due to front line staff members of the Southern Health Board for the years 1987 and 1988 have been paid. Expenses due to board members over the same period have also been paid.