Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary)
2:00 am
James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
The €111 million is arrived at across two heads, one consisting of €66.1 million and the other a further €39.7 million. The €66.1 million concerns public sector pay costs from the Building Momentum pay deal as well as the public-only consultant contracts in the higher education sector because we have a number of medics, etc., involved in the universities. Some of them fall to us, in terms of some of the medical schools and so forth. That €66.1 million relates to the Building Momentum pay deal and then a further €39.7 million has been allocated for in-year pension obligations.
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