Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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183. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a pay rise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12265/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Public sector pay agreements have sanctioned general round increases in public sector pay on numerous occasions in the past 16 years. I can confirm that pay scales for the grades the Deputy is querying have risen in line with these general round pay increases as appropriate.

Most recently, the Lansdowne Road Agreement and the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015 gave effect to adjustments to annualised salaries up to €31,000 from 1st January 2016 which has resulted in an increase in the salaries of many of the catering grades in the health sector.