John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 168: To ask the Minister for Finance the way the reduction in public service salaries, announced in budget 2010, is being applied to public servants who are job-sharing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8823/10]

John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 169: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on public servants who are job-sharing and have a portion of their salaries reduced by 7.5% even though their actual salaries are less than €30,000, which should entail a reduction of 5%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8824/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 168 and 169 together.

The pay reductions provided for in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009, apply to the instruments setting rates of pay. It is a well established principle that the pay of job or work sharers and those on atypical work patterns is calculated by reference to the whole time equivalent pay rate for the grade or post in question. The reduced pay rates are, therefore, calculated in this way which is consistent with the legislation governing the conditions of employment of part-time workers. Accordingly, the reduction in the rate of pay for full time and job sharing public servants is the same and any change in this relationship would create an inequity in the rate of pay for those doing similar work.