Written answers

Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Public Sector Pay

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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443. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated costs in 2016 of the increases that will arise as a result of the Lansdowne Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32277/15]

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The proposals for the Lansdowne Road Agreement, which were recently ratified by the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions,  contain a number of measures to reduce the effect of the pay cuts which were imposed on public servants from 2009 to 2013 in response to the financial crisis. These measures, which aim to restore some element of pay to all public servants while focussing on those at the lower levels of pay, are to be implemented on a phased basis from January 2016 to September 2018.

The Lansdowne Road Agreement also incorporates the terms of the Haddington Road Agreement ensuring that the productivity and reform measures contained in that agreement remain in place. Any costing of public service pay commitments in 2016 will therefore take account of commitments made under both the Haddington Road and Lansdowne Road agreements.  The total 2016 cost arising from changes to the remuneration of public servants, including reductions to the pension levy, as a result of the Lansdowne Road Agreement is €267m, of which €18m is directly attributable to the Haddington Road Agreement. 

Tables setting out the cost of the Lansdowne Road Agreement up to 2018 are available on my Department's website at

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