Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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176. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full-year cost of the full restoration of financial emergency measures in the public interest reductions, pension-related deductions and pay deductions in respect of employees earning €65,000 or less in pay bands of €5,000. [44920/15]

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full-year cost of the full restoration of financial emergency measures in the public interest reductions, pension-related deductions and pay deductions in respect of employees earning €110,000 or less in pay bands of €5,000 to €65,001. [45418/15]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 176 and 191 together.

The nearest data currently available within the Department to that sought by the Deputy are based on the estimated breakdown of public service employee numbers on a whole time equivalent basis by mid-point of salary range up to €112,500 at end September 2014. Numbers of public servants have since increased on foot of Government decisions to recruit additional staff in certain key front line public services. The pay ranges employed reflect the pay reductions effected under the FEMPI Acts, in January 2010 and July 2013.

It should also be noted that the measures applied under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) legislationwere applied in a different way. Progressive pay reductions were applied to gross remuneration in 2010 and 2013; in contrast, the pension related deduction has been applied, also on a progressive basis, as an ongoing annual deduction affecting net pay, following those pay reductions.

These estimates set out in the table do not include the effect of the measures that will apply to salaries of public servants under the recent FEMPI Act 2015, which implements the terms of the Lansdowne Road Agreement. Costs have been rounded to the nearest €m.