Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 169: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage increase in real terms in the national minimum wage between its introduction in 2000 and March 2006. [11168/06]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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When it was introduced on 1 April 2000, the national minimum hourly rate of pay was set at £4.40, or €5.59, per hour. The current rate is €7.65 per hour, which represents an increase in real terms — taking into account increases in the consumer price index — of 11.7% since its introduction.