Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 187: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 26 January 2010, the reason a formal reply has not yet been issued; and if he is now in a position to furnish a reply to the question. [6389/10]

Martin Mansergh (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)
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Section 6 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act, 2009 provides that, in certain limited circumstances, the Minister for Finance may by direction exempt or vary the application of the pay reductions provided for in the Act to public servants, or groups of public servants. The Minister has directed that an exemption from the pay reductions in the legislation should apply where those reductions would reduce the pay rate of public servants to, at, or below the statutory minimum wage. The direction will apply only to a small number of very atypical employments in the public service, normally linked to employment as part of intellectual disability support programmes. This exemption will apply in the case raised by the Deputy.