David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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171. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the application of the 10% reduction to new entrants in the public service is being applied by his Department to non-new entrants irrespective of previous service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27803/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I can confirm that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, on foot of terms set out in Circular 18/2010, had been applying the 10 % reduction in pay rates and fixed term allowances to persons recruited at entry grades to the department from 1 January 2011 onwards. I can confirm that this was not applied to staff recruited at entry grades after 1 January 2011 with previous reckonable service.

The current position is that this circular was superseded by Circular 2/2014 which provided for the Implementation of Clause 2.31 of the Haddington Road Agreement, whereby, the Government provided for an agreed process for the amalgamation of pay scales to address any imbalance in pay scales between those who entered the public service as new entrants after January 2011 with those applying to public servants before January 2011.

The revised scales provide for assimilation of new entrant public servants to a single applicable scale to each grade and represent a significant redressing of any imbalance particularly in the context of the savings required under the Haddington Road Agreement. These revised scales have been implemented in this Department since 1 November 2013.