Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 189: To ask the Taoiseach the number of the two million people employed here who are receiving a wage of less than €10 per hour; and the number of these who are receiving a wage of €7.65 per hour. [38543/06]

Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The latest results in relation to the distribution of earnings are from the 2003 National Employment Survey. The results refer to a total of 1,440,400 employees out of 1,793,400 persons at work in March 2003. The survey does not measure self-employed earnings and it does not include the agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors. The average earnings per hour was €16.41 for all employees. The results for March 2003 show that 28.4% of all employees earned less than €10 per hour and 12.1% of all employees earned less than €7.65 per hour. The minimum wage for experienced adult workers in March 2003 was €6.35 per hour and the survey indicated that 3.8% of all employees earned less than this amount. The National Employment Survey (NES) is being undertaken on an annual basis from 2006 onwards and the Central Statistics Office (CSO) is planning to publish the results of the March 2006 survey in the middle of next year, 2007.