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NCCP seeks staff increases
Written by Paul Mulholland Monday, 02 November 2009 15:16
The National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) is currently seeking an exemption from the public sector moratorium for posts that are vacated as a result of transfers, it was revealed to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health meeting.
The NCCP has received an exemption for all positions listed as new posts.
However, vacant posts associated with transfers as well as staff on maternity or sick leave are not exempt from the moratorium, according to Interim Director of the NCCP, Prof Tom Keane.
“We still have a small problem as identified in one of the answers I gave around what happens when a whole time equivalent post, and the money for that post, transfers but the person does not,” Prof Keane told the Committee.
“We currently do not have an exemption to fill that post. It is essentially neutral, but we are requesting the Department to allow an additional exemption where posts are vacated in association with transfers.
The request ultimately goes to the Department of Finance through the HSE and I hope to hear about it in the coming weeks.”
Prof Keane said the moratorium was explicitly lifted for all the posts which were funded as part of the expansion of the cancer service.
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