Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budgeted cost to her Department for 2009 of incremental pay increases for all staff in and under the aegis of her Department; the comparative cost for each year from 2002 to date in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46985/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The year to year costs of incremental pay increases are normally offset by corresponding reductions in costs associated with retirements and other movements by staff on higher points on the incremental scales and their replacement by staff on lower points. Incremental increases are not therefore individually costed and there is no separate provision for incremental increases in my Department's estimates. Therefore it is not possible to provide the Deputy with the information requested for the years 2002 to 2008 or for 2009.

The cost of incremental pay increases awarded to existing staff in the agencies under the remit of my Department is a day to day matter for the agencies concerned. My Department has no role or function in this process.