Clare Daly
Question:177 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive management in St. Brendan’s Hospital and on the north side of Dublin continues to outsource the core maintenance work of directly employed HSE tradesmen including bricklayers and plasterers to private contractors at a greater cost to the taxpayer; the reason directly employed HSE tradesmen responsible for maintenance work in St. Brendan’s and HSE premises in the north side of Dublin are being asked to relinquish their trade and allow themselves be redeployed to unsuitable office work while the core work they have performed for decades remains to be done; and the reason the HSE management in St. Brendan’s and the north side of Dublin have not adhered to the terms of the Croke Park agreement in terms of redeployment — specifically not investigating the option of redeploying under-utilised HSE tradesmen to another branch of the public service. [20146/11]
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