Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand. We know it is likely that a pay deal will be struck. Will the Minister give us an indication of how much of the pie will be taken up by the pay deal? Is it not the case that the rejected pay deal on offer had a total value of €1.1 billion? Was this not the overall package on offer? The 2023 figure was less than that because some of the increments were later in the year. Do the officials have the figure of how much the 2.5% increase would have amounted to? It would allow the committee to say that if a pay deal is in excess of this it would cost more than the figure that was on offer.