Billy Timmins
Ceist:144 Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47072/10]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 14 December 2010
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Freagraí scríofa
The Incentivised Scheme of Early Retirement (ISER) was announced by the Minister for Finance in his Supplementary Budget Statement of 7 April 2009. This replaced all existing early retirement schemes, and no others were available after the closing date of the ISER, until the introduction of the Voluntary Early Retirement and Voluntary Redundancy schemes which I announced on 1 November 2010.
The Government decided in November 2010 that in view of the need to achieve a permanent reduction in the number employed in the public health sector from 2011 onwards, and to facilitate public health reform, that a targeted scheme should be introduced for certain grades in the health sector. As this scheme post dated the retirement date of the person in question, its terms were not, unfortunately, available to him.