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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Based on the evidence available, and engagement with relevant Departments and agencies, of recruitment of new entrants to the public service, measured by number of applications received, number of appointments made and the overall growth in numbers, the public service continues to provide an attractive occupation and career choice for job seekers in most professional and administrative...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Programme for Government commits that the Government will establish a Public Service Pay Commission to examine pay levels across the public service. The precise structure of such a commission and the technical aspects as to how it would operate have yet to be decided upon and would require broad consultation, including engagement with staff representatives as was committed to in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Teachers' Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue of addressing the difference in incremental salary scales between those public servants, including Teachers, who entered public service employment since 2011 and those who entered before that date was addressed with the relevant union interests under the provisions of the Haddington Road Agreement (HRA). Any further consideration of remuneration for any group of public servants,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Programme for Government (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Programme for a Partnership Government sets out the ambition to build a strong economy and to deliver a fair society. The Programme identifies a number of policy challenges and for each of these challenges a clear unambiguous high-level ambition is also identified. As stated in the Programme for every policy challenge, the new Government will ensure that a balance is struck between...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As outlined in the Programme for Government, the Government is committed to boosting public expenditure in a sustainable way and will introduce budgets that will involve at least a 2:1 split between investment in public spending and tax reductions. This will allow expenditure to be increased to meet the additional costs arising from an ageing and growing population and to provide for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: From the period 2009 to 2013 the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Acts introduced pay reduction measures. These measures, together with the Public Service Pension Reduction (PSPR) implemented in January 2011, are estimated to have resulted in over €2.2bn in direct reductions in public service remuneration and pensions. The Government has, through the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As noted in my reply to PQ 10976/16 of the 19th of May, the precise structure of the Pay Commission and the technical aspects as to how it would operate have yet to be decided upon and would require broad consultation, including engagement with staff representatives as was committed to in the Lansdowne Road Agreement.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue of addressing the difference in incremental salary scales between those public servants including Gardai who entered public service employment since 2011 and those who entered before that date was addressed with the relevant staff interests under the provisions of the Haddington Road Agreement. Any further consideration of remuneration for any group of public servants including...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Teachers' Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The issue of addressing the difference in incremental salary scales between those public servants, including Teachers, who entered public service employment since 2011 and those who entered before that date was addressed with the relevant union interests under the provisions of the Haddington Road Agreement (HRA). Any further consideration of remuneration for any group of public servants,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The 10 per cent reduced rates of pay for new entrant public servants was one of a number of measures introduced over the period of the fiscal crisis which directly affected the pay of public servants. The reductions in starting pay were introduced in 2011 by the then Government of the day in order to reduce the Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill. The reduced rates were introduced...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Based on the evidence available, and engagement with relevant Departments and agencies, of recruitment of new entrants to the public service, measured by number of applications received, number of appointments made and the overall growth in numbers, the public service continues to provide an attractive occupation and career choice for job seekers in most professional and administrative...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I understand that the assessment included in the briefing document referred to in the Deputy's question refers to the capital funding position for Third Level rather than capital funding for schools. I am advised by my Department that the basis to the statement is that existing capital funding for third level is already committed to certain projects which is interpreted in the briefing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Programme for Government commits that the Government will establish a Public Service Pay Commission to examine pay levels across the public service. The precise structure of such a commission and the technical aspects as to how it would operate have yet to be decided upon and would require broad consultation, including engagement with staff representatives as...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Appointments Service is the independent, centralised recruitment agency for the civil and public service and conducts Temporary Clerical Officer competitions to fill vacancies which may arise during the year in various departments and locations around the country. I understand from the Public Appointments Service that the 2016 competition attracted over 11,500 applications....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Under section 12 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Act 2013, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is required to review the necessity of FEMPI legislation annually and cause a written report of the findings to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas. In that context the most recent report made under the 2013 Act was laid before both Houses of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer the Deputy to my earlier answer on the matter of the Pay Commission (PQ 12978/16); the precise parameters for which have yet to be decided. The issue of addressing the difference in incremental salary scales between those public servants who entered public service employment since 2011 and those who entered before that date was addressed with the relevant union interests under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Allowances Payments (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question Marriage Gratuity relates to Civil Servants who joined the Civil Service before 1974. An officer appointed from a recruitment competition advertised prior to 1 February 1974 (or an officer serving in a temporary capacity before that date who, without a break in service, subsequently became established) who has at least 5 years' actual reckonable service...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The data sought by the Deputy are not available to my Department. The closest data currently available within the Department to that sought by the Deputy are in the estimated breakdown of employee numbers on a whole time equivalent basis by salary range within the public service from 2012 to 2015 and is set out in the following table. - 2012 2013 2014 2015 € WTE* WTE* WTE* WTE* 0...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Reviews (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 546 and 547 together. I can confirm that I have requested the Chief Whip to arrange to have the Statute Law Revision Bill 2016 restored to the Seanad Order Paper. The Statute Law Revision Bill 2016 is one of series of legislative measures to repeal spent and obsolete primary and secondary legislation. It expressly repeals 42% of in force Acts enacted by...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I understand that Unions representing CE Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors have sought the provision of Exchequer funding to implement a Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme dating back to 2008. In this regard the position has been that it is not possible for the State to provide funding for such a scheme to employees of private companies even if...