Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 176: To ask the Taoiseach the details of the quarterly data on hourly wage rates, hours worked and average earnings since the first quarter of 2007 in respect of each category of employment for which the Central Statistics Office collects information. [34575/09]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Quarterly statistics on earnings, employment and hours worked are compiled by the Central Statistics Office from the following sources:

The Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) which will ultimately replace the other CSO short-term earnings surveys;

The survey on earnings in Distribution and Business Services;

The survey on earnings and hours in the Construction Sector; and

The survey on earnings in the Public Sector.

Statistics from the EHECS survey are given in Table 1.

Table 5 — Public Sector average weekly earnings

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 177: To ask the Taoiseach the details of the quarterly data on earnings and hours worked in different public service categories in each quarter since 2007, distinguishing basic pay from overtime and allowances. [34576/09]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The current quarterly earnings survey on the public sector collects data on weekly earnings but does not distinguish basic pay and overtime. This survey will be replaced shortly by the new quarterly Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS), which will be extended to all sectors. It will provide more detail on the components of earnings and it will be possible to distinguish regular, overtime and irregular earnings.

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 178: To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office collects information on bonuses and overtime or other allowances payable in private sector employments; and if they can distinguish movements in the categories since the first quarter of 2007. [34577/09]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The quarterly Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) is a new quarterly survey which is being phased in to replace all other existing CSO short-term earnings inquiries. It provides more detail on the components of earnings and labour costs, including separate information on regular pay, overtime and irregular earnings.

The survey was rolled out to the Industrial and Financial sectors from Q4 2005 onwards and was extended to other sectors in Q1 2008. The next EHECS quarterly publication (for Q2 2009) will be extended to provide economy-wide coverage of earnings and labour cost data. The current data for the Industrial and Financial sectors (up to Q1 2009) is set out below:

*Provisional