Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance)
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461. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to introduce a minimum weekly gross wage of €480, €500, €520, €560 or €600 for all full-time employees under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27792/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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My Department has undertaken no costing of the initiative outlined by the Deputy as the introduction of any minimum wage rate per hour would necessarily have to take place on a cross Governmental basis and costs determined centrally as part of the estimates budgetary process. Pre-determined salary scales negotiated at central level are applied to all staff in the department.

On a purely indicative basis it is not anticipated that the introduction of such minimum wage rates per hour in my own Department would incur significant cost as the majority of staff are on salary points above that mentioned by the Deputy.