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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 3 May 1977

Vol. 299 No. 1

Written Answers. - Job Projection Figures.

66.

asked the Minister for Health the number of jobs, of the projected 2,000 in his Department, which will be realised in the North-Eastern Health Board region; the services that will benefit by the future increases; and the number of appointments that will be made in each service.

The total number of new posts approved for the health services in the job creation programme announced in this year's budget is 2,900. 181 of these are for the North-Eastern Health Board and ten are for Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. A total of 54 posts have been approved for homes for the mentally handicapped run by the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God and a number of these will be allocated by the Order of St. Mary's, Drumcar.

The job creation programme provides for additional posts in all categories of health services staff and, accordingly, all services will benefit.

The distribution between the services of the 181 posts approved for North-Eastern Health Board is as follows:—

Community Care

103

General Hospitals

21

Psychiatric Hospitals

26

Health Board headquarters

6

Tempory Maintenance Staff

25

181

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