Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government 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. [25356/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Payment of salaries to staff of my Department is made in line with pay scales approved by the Department for Public Expenditure and Reform. If a minimum payment of €11.45 an hour were introduced, the additional costs are estimated to be in the region of €13,170 (not including Employer’s PRSI). Material in respect of bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the bodies concerned and is not available in my Department.