Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
No, there was no requirement to sign off on that because a public service pay deal, Building Momentum, applies across the board. It applied last year and again applies this year. As part of that, there are three separate 1% pay increases, in October of last year and February and October of this year. The February increase, which has just occurred, is slightly different for some public servants because we offered an opportunity to form a sectoral bargaining unit. Instead of using the money for a flat 1% increase, it could be used to settle outstanding grievances. A number of sectoral bargaining units are continuing to negotiate in that context and I expect that will conclude in the coming weeks. In the Civil Service, none of the sectoral bargaining units decided to use the envelope for anything other than a flat 1% increase, so that has been applied in accordance with the circular that issued to implement this element of the pay deal.
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