Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, United Left)
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273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify if the new entrants in the public sector under the Croke Park agreement were paid 10% less start pay; under the Haddington Road agreement this 10% was to be reinstated for these new entrants in November 2013; when this increase will take place and will it be backdated to November 2013. [24623/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The Haddington Road Agreement made provision to address the imbalance between those who entered the Public Service since 2011 and those who entered before that date. In accordance with the Agreement revised incremental salary scales are being implemented in each public service sector for same grade entrants that incorporate the revision of salary introduced by Government in January 2011 and will be effective from 1 November 2013.

Michelle Mulherin (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the provisions there are under the Haddington Road agreement for a public sector worker whose working week was 35 hours or less and who chose to remain on those hours with an appropriate pay adjustment to continue working those hours beyond 30 June 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24633/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The Haddington Road Agreement provides for the standard working week for a public servant with a working week of 35 hours or less to increase to 37 hours a week.  The detailed implementation of this measure is a matter for local management in each public service sector in line with the operational requirements of the relevant sector.

Michelle Mulherin (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the criteria used by Civil Service management to decide whether a civil servant, under the Haddington Road agreement, can be allowed to remain on a 35 hour or less working week with appropriate pay cuts beyond 30 June 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24634/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Under the terms of the Haddington Road Agreement, it was agreed that Management would allow people to remain on their pre-Haddington Road hours with appropriate pay adjustments for a set period of time.  The Agreement provided that following this period the new work sharing provisions which are set out in the Haddington Road Agreement should apply. 

The revised worksharing arrangments in the Agreement stipulate that:

- the implementation and operation of worksharing arrangements is at the discretion of management;

- no work sharing patterns approved in the future should be less than 50% of full time working hours; and

- each individual's work-sharing arrangements will be formally reviewed on an annual basis (or earlier if required). 

In practice, this means that in the Civil Service where worksharing arrangements were agreed to facilitate the retention of pre-Haddington Road hours, managers will review those arrangements to determine if the worksharing patterns being requested by individual staff members, whether pre-Haddington Road or otherwise, meet the business needs of the organisation, having regard to the efficient and effective delivery of public services.