Michael Noonan (Limerick East, Fine Gael)
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Question 292: To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage increase in the public sector pay bill in 2009 from the payment of full increments to all public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30223/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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No increased provision will be made in the paybill for increments.

Year-to-year increases in allocations would not normally be granted to allow for increments. In the normal way, the overall cost of increments for some staff on incremental scales should be offset by reductions in cost arising from retirements or other movements by staff on higher incremental points and their replacement by staff on lower points.