Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimal-threshold gross salary of €11.45 per hour in his Department and the bodies under his aegis. [25351/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Based on introducing a minimal threshold hourly rate of €11.45, the estimated additional annual cost in relation to staff employed by my Department would approximately be €120,000. The parallel information in respect of State Bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the Bodies themselves.