David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will hold talks on a new pay agreement; if this will lead to a new agreement that supersedes the Lansdowne Road agreement; when a new agreement will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33747/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Public Service Pay Commission has been tasked with providing an initial report to Government on public service remuneration in the context of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts 2009-2015.

The findings of the Commission will contribute to and inform Government's considerations in relation to Public Service remuneration and will inform Public Service employers in negotiations with staff interests on a successor to the Lansdowne Road Agreement.

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures outside of the Lansdowne Road agreement which have been agreed and put in place with sectorial unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33748/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Lansdowne Road Agreement provides the single agreed framework within which public service management and unions at the various sectoral levels process industrial relations issues and related matters of mutual concern.

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the principle of equal work for equal pay; if he is committed to implementing this principle within the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33749/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The 10% reductions in starting pay for certain new entrants were introduced by the then Government in January 2011 as part of the National Recovery Plan in order to reduce the Public Service Pay Bill. Terms and conditions of employment for public servants are also set by reference to legislation including the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts and through negotiation and agreement under Collective Agreements such as the Haddington Road Agreement (HRA) and the Lansdowne Road Agreement (LRA). 

The issue of addressing the difference in incremental salary scales between those public servants, who entered public service employment since 2011 and those who entered before that date was addressed with the relevant union interests under the provisions of the Haddington Road Agreement. Any further consideration of remuneration adjustment for any group of public servants, including issues relating to more recently recruited public servants, will fall to be examined within the provisions of the Lansdowne Road Agreement.  The Agreement provides the framework and is flexible enough to address particular sectoral issues such as the restoration of supervision and substitution payments and new entrant payments in the Education Sector and the restoration of rent allowances to new entrant firefighters and members of An Garda Síochána.

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total net gain for public sector workers on salaries (details supplied) if all FEMPI cuts were unwound; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33756/16]

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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262. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net gain for a public sector worker on a salary of €30,000 following the full implementation of the Lansdowne Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33757/16]

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net gain for a public sector worker on a salary of €40,000 following the full implementation of the Lansdowne Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33758/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 261 to 263, inclusive, together.

The salaries referred to by the Deputy were subject to three FEMPI Acts,

- the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 which introduced a new deduction from the remuneration of pensionable public servants, which is known as the Pension-Related Deduction (PRD)

- the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 which provided for the reduction of the remuneration of public servants ranging from 5% to 15%

- the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015 which commenced the gradual, fiscally sustainable, unwinding of certain measures contained in the earlier Acts.

The impact of these Acts is set out in the Table below:

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net gain for a public sector worker on a salary of €70,000 following the full implementation of the Lansdowne Road agreement and a separate registered agreement for those on over €65,000 as part of the HRA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33759/16]

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net gain for a public sector worker on a salary of €80,000 following the full implementation of the Lansdowne Road agreement and a separate registered agreement for those on over €65,000 as part of the HRA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33760/16]

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net gain for a public sector worker on a salary of €100,000 following the full implementation of the Lansdowne Road agreement and a separate registered agreement for those on over €65,000 as part of the HRA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33761/16]

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net gain for a public sector worker on a salary of €120,000 following the full implementation of the Lansdowne Road agreement and a separate registered agreement for those on over €65,000 as part of the HRA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33762/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 264 to 267, inclusive, together.

The salaries referred to by the Deputy were subject to four FEMPI Acts,

- the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 which introduced a new deduction from the remuneration of pensionable public servants, which is known as the Pension-Related Deduction (PRD)

- the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 which provided for the reduction of the remuneration of public servants ranging from 5% to 15%

- the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 implemented a further pay reduction for public servants earning annual salaries of more than €65,000 ranging from 5.5% to 10%

- the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015 which commenced the gradual, fiscally sustainable, unwinding of certain measures contained in the earlier Acts.

The impact of these Acts is set out in the Table below:

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net gain for a Deputy following the full implementation of the Lansdowne Road agreement and a separate registered agreement for those on over €65,000 as part of the HRA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33763/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Lansdowne Road Agreement, underpinned by the FEMPI 2015 Act, brought in a reduction of Pension Related Deduction (PRD) for all public servants. The reduction in PRD in 2017 will benefit TDs in the amount of €1,000.

Pay restoration for TDs under the Haddington Road Agreement, also underpinned by the FEMPI 2015 Act,will be paid in two equal phases with the first phase due on 1 April 2017, and the second on 1 January 2018.  This will amount to an increase of €2,707 in each year.

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if temporary clerical officers are on a different weekly pay rate to clerical officers despite doing the same job; if this was due to be remedied via a circular issued in 2013; if such a circular was issued, the current status of same; if temporary clerical officers are on unequal pay when compared to their colleagues doing the same job, his plans to remedy the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33794/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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It is the position that there is no difference in the current pay rate of Temporary Clerical Officers "TCOs" and Clerical Officers "COs. The details of the pay rates  are contained in the relevant circulars issued by my Department including the two most recent circulars 2/2014 and 17/2015  which can be found on www.circulars.gov.ie