Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 124: To ask the Minister for Finance the extra cost in 2009 of paying the latest agreement on pay increase, of pay drift due to increments and grade movement, of the carryover of the last pay round, and of increased public service numbers taken on during the past year. [33191/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Based on current staffing and numbers, it is estimated that the cost of implementing the pay increases provided for in the draft Agreement will be approximately €260m in 2009. The additional cost of the carryover of the last pay round is approximately €360m. No increased provision will be made in the pay bill 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. It is not possible at this stage to provide a cost for 2009 of changes in public service numbers as this issue will be considered in the context of the Budget for 2009.