David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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290. To ask the Minister for Health the starting salary and allowances in place for nurses as and from 1 January 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33752/16]

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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291. To ask the Minister for Health the starting salary and allowances in place for nurses as and from 1 November 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33753/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 290 and 291 together.

The starting salary for staff nurses and midwives as and from 1 January 2010 was €30,234, for mental health staff nurses the starting salary as and from 1 January 2010 was €30,937. The corresponding salaries as and from 1 November 2016 are €27,483 and €28,122. This reflects the 10% reduced new entrant scales introduced with effect from 1 January 2011.

Nurses and midwives may also qualify for a range of allowances and premium payments depending on their working hours, their work location and the qualifications they hold. With effect from the 1 January 2017 nurses will receive a 36 week incremental credit for their 4th year student clinical placement will apply to all graduating nurses. This means they will move on to the second point of the incremental pay scale after 16 weeks in their first post. From 1 September 2017 they will also receive €1,000 as part of restoration of pay under the Lansdowne Road Agreement.

Further details are set out in the consolidated salary scales which contains salary scales for all grades of nursing and details of all of the allowances that may be available to qualifying nurses.

The 1 January 2010 salary scales are available here:

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The 1 January 2016 salary scales which are still current as of todays date are available here: .