Séamus Kirk (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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167. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will advise when it is hoped to pay serving members who have joined the Permanent Defence Force since 2011 an extra 10% that was promised as part of Haddington Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8472/14]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Nowhere in the Public Service Stability Agreement 2013 – 2016, ‘The Haddington Road Agreement’ is there a promise to pay an extra 10% to any public servant. I am assuming that the Deputy is referring to Paragraph 2.31 of that Agreement which provides “that in order to address the imbalance between those who entered the Public Service since 2011 and those who entered before that date, revised incremental salary scales shall be prepared for same grade entrants to each public service sector as necessary to incorporate the revision of salary scales introduced by Government Decision in January 2011.”

Following discussions with Public Sector Unions the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform has recently issued guidelines on incorporating the 01 January 2011 and 01 January 2010 public service recruitment pay scales. I can advise that my Department is currently examining the application of those guidelines to the pay structures applicable in the Defence Forces.

It is hoped to be in a position to discuss the practical applicability of the guidelines with the Defence Forces Representative Associations in the next number of weeks and to then finalise the technical work to give effect to the revised incorporated scales. I wish to assure the Deputy that everything is being done to progress this work in an efficient and effective fashion and that no member of the Defence Forces will suffer any financial loss arising out of the implementation of this element of the Haddington Road Agreement.