Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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669. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify if all branches of the civil service within her Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or incremental salary scales on the basis of a single point per annum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8678/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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An increment is an increase in pay for which provision is made in a pay scale. Prior to the Haddington Road Agreement, increments were granted annually provided an officer's services are satisfactory and in accordance with Finance Circular 9/1987.

Revised arrangements under Haddington Road (Circular 8/2013) provide generally for an extension of the interval period from twelve to fifteen months. In addition other increment changes were introduced depending on the salary level involved for individual member of staff. The detailed application of these changes are set out in Circular 8/2013, which is available from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform website.