Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 391: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the budgeted cost to his Department for 2009 of incremental pay increases for all staff in and under the aegis of his Department; the comparative cost for each year from 2002 to date in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46982/08]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply to Question No. 171 of 23 October 2008. The position, as set out in that reply, is that 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. I can confirm that there is no increased provision for increments in the pay bill in my Department's group of Votes for 2008, nor is such a provision being made for 2009. The position would be the same in relation to previous years.