Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current number of public sector employees per '000 population; if he will provide the projected number of sector employees per '000 population by the end of 2015; the saving to Exchequer if senior public sector pay, excluding the hospital consultants, was capped at five times the first scale point of a new entrant full time clerical officer rate. [36463/13]

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to Exchequer if senior public sector pay, excluding the hospital consultants, were capped at 5.5 times the first scale point of a new entrant full time clerical officer rate [36464/13]

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to the Exchequer if senior public sector pay, excluding the hospital consultants, were capped at 6.5 times the first scale point of a new entrant full time clerical officer rate. [36465/13]

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to the Exchequer if senior public sector pay, excluding the hospital consultants, were capped at 7 times the first scale point of a new entrant full time clerical officer rate. [36466/13]

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the savings to the Exchequer if senior public sector pay, excluding the hospital consultants, was capped at 5 times the first scale point of a new entrant full time clerical officer rate. [36781/13]

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to Exchequer if senior public sector pay, excluding the hospital consultants, were capped at six times the first scale point of a new entrant full time clerical officer rate. [36782/13]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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I propose to answer Questions Nos. 273 to 276, inclusive, and 280 and 281 together.

I refer to my replies to Questions Nos. 402, 403 and 407 of 16 July 2013. Comparative data is not available in my Department in the form sought by the Deputy. Current data on public service numbers can be accessed at while available population data can be accessed at www.cso.ie. The current Government target for public service numbers by end 2014 is 282,500.