Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the quantum of total salary payments to judges in each court in 2011; the annual savings achieved in each court following the 29th Amendment to the Constitution and the forecast total salary payments to judges in each court 2012. [45985/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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In line with the favourable outcome of the referendum on the Twenty Ninth Amendment of the Constitution, which concerned judicial remuneration, legislation was enacted in 2011 to provide for the application of the two Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts of 2009 to both serving and new members of the Judiciary and military judges on the same basis as other public servants. This has resulted in reductions in remuneration for serving judges ranging from 23% to 16%.

In addition, for newly appointed judges, revised salary rates have been implemented to reflect the 10% reduction applied at the beginning of 2011 to new public servants appointed to the public service entry grades. These provisions effect reductions in remuneration for new appointees to the judiciary ranging from 31% to 25%. These measures came into effect on the 1st January 2012. A table outlining the total salary payments to judges in each court in 2011, the estimated total payments in 2012, and the approximate total savings for each court from 2011 to 2012 is below.

Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the number of public servants that earn more than €100,000 annually; and the proportion of this number that this represents of the public sector pay bill. [45732/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Contemporary data on earnings for public servants is not available to my Department. The estimated number of employees with an annual salary over €100,000 (based on a whole time equivalent figure of 292,000) within the public service (excluding Commercial State Companies) in 2012 represents approx. 2% of the staff employed. Details of the numbers of staff by salary range over €100,000 are set out in the Table below:

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.