Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount and proportion of the increase in the public sector pay bill which accrued as a result of incremental pay increases for each year since 2000 and including forecasts for 2008 and 2009, and for each Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33345/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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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.

There is no increased provision for increments in the paybill for 2008 and no increased provision will be made in 2009 either.