Hospital Facilities
Dail Éireann — 2026-01-22
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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG), Dún Laoghaire

To clarify, the Northside Home Care Services are funded through a separate tender arrangement. It is different; it is not HSE and section 39. The organisation is in receipt of small grant funding under section 39 in respect of meals on wheels but that is different.
The HSE reached out to the Northside Home Care Services last week to remind them of the process for claiming an uplift in pay funding in respect of section 39 which it receives in respect of meals on wheels. However, beyond that, it is not a public sector body as such. In any dispute between an employer and employee, nobody wants the stress of going to work in those circumstances. Nobody wants to get to the point where they are initiating strike action, though they are entirely entitled to and I completely respect them doing that. I know they will want to get back to work as quickly as possible but I have to separate the organisations that are within the public service agreement and those that are not and that are tendered separately. We have a direct responsibility for some, while others are between employer and employee and are a tendered service to the HSE, which is different.

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Sitting date: 2026-01-22