Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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201. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of bonus remuneration paid to staff in his Department and in agencies under his aegis to date in 2015; the number of persons to whom these payments were made and their purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32535/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Bonus payments are not made to staff members in my Department or to staff in any of the non-commercial semi state agencies under the aegis of my Department. 

Irish Water is the only commercial semi-state Company under the aegis of my Department and operates the Ervia pay model. This model provides for a Performance Related Award (PRA) which is an element of “pay at risk”. While the award of PRA is subject to certain conditions, and is at the sole discretion of the company, a decision was made by the company in November 2014 that PRAs would not be paid in respect of 2013 and 2014. Irish Water has not paid a PRA to any of its employees in 2015. The Labour Relations Commission issued a recent recommendation on the Irish Water pay model which is subject to ballot by the Group of Unions in early October 2015. In the event that the proposals are accepted, a temporary incremental pay model will apply to Irish Water until 31 December 2016. From January 2017 the Ervia pay model in its entirety will apply to Irish Water.