Written answers

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Public Service Remuneration

8:00 pm

Photo of Joanna TuffyJoanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 295: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants who earn amounts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1329/12]

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Contemporary data on earnings for public servants is not available to my Department. The closest data currently available within the Department to that sought by the Deputy relates to salary ranges. The estimated breakdown of employee numbers on a whole time equivalent basis (based on a whole time equivalent figure of 300,000) by salary range within the public service (excluding Commercial State Companies) in 2011 is set out in the Table below:

Pay ParametersNumbers
€0-€20,00019,442
€20,001-€30,00026,749
€30,001-€40,00066,504
€40,001-€50,00068,935
€50,001-€60,00044,019
€60,001-€70,00030,315
€70,001-€80,00022,285
€80,001-€90,00010,814
€90,001-€100,0004,146
€100,001-€125,0003,043
€125,001-€150,0001,212
Over €150,0002,536
Total300,000

The above salary figures include the reduction imposed on the remuneration rates of public servants under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No 2) Act 2009 effective from 1 January 2010. However, the salary ranges exclude the impact on gross salaries of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 which imposed a pension related deduction on the salary of public servants of an average of some 7% effective from March 2009.

From the information available to my Department there are (i) seven posts in the public service where current incumbents currently have approved annual salary rates in excess of €250,000 and (ii) eleven posts in Commercial State Companies where current incumbents have annual salary rates in excess of €250,000 - with the salary of the Chief Executive Officer of An Post attracting the highest salary of €386,204.

However, it should be noted that the above figures are not reflective of any voluntary arrangement that the individuals concerned may have entered into following the Government decision in June 2011 to seek voluntary waivers of salary of 15%, or by a lesser amount if the application of the full 15% reduction would bring the salary levels of such individuals to below the pay ceiling of €200,000 p.a. across the public service and of €250,000 within Commercial State Companies.

Finally, my colleague the Minister for Finance has outlined the remuneration rates in respect of the Central Bank and the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA)in his replies to Question Nos. 17682/11, 17686/11, 17690/11 and 17691/11, and to Nos. 1768/11, 17685/11, 1788/11 and 17692/11 on 29 June last. I am currently in correspondence with the Minister for Finance, concerning the pay arrangements in those bodies, including in relation to greater transparency with regard to remuneration.

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