697. Deputy Ciara Conway asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the issues faced by residential health care staff working on sleepover duty after the Labour Court ruling in view of the fact that some residential care staff are expected to work 63 hours per week instead of the statutory 48 hours; the reasons for same; if sleepover duty, where a member of staff is on-call while working overnight, is part of the working week and if it is treated as such for pay purposes; his views on whether these hours are in breach of EU and Irish working time legislation; his views on the low levels of hourly pay associated with sleepover duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31515/14]

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697. Deputy Ciara Conway asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the issues faced by residential health care staff working on sleepover duty after the Labour Court ruling in view of the fact that some residential care staff are expected to work 63 hours per week instead of the statutory 48 hours; the reasons for same; if sleepover duty, where a member of staff is on-call while working overnight, is part of the working week and if it is treated as such for pay purposes; his views on whether these hours are in breach of EU and Irish working time legislation; his views on the low levels of hourly pay associated with sleepover duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31515/14]

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1. 15 July 2014

   Health Services Staff

   697. Deputy Ciara Conway asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the issues faced by residential health care staff working on sleepover duty after the Labour Court ruling in view of the fact that some residential care staff are expected to work 63 hours per week instead of the statutory 48 hours; the reasons for same; if sleepover duty, where a member of staff is on-call while working overnight, is part of the working week and if it is treated as such for pay purposes; his views on whether these hours are in breach of EU and Irish working time legislation; his views on the low levels of hourly pay associated with sleepover duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31515/14]

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