David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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85. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in low-paid jobs, with "low-paid" defined as earning below two thirds of the median wage, broken down by percentage. [10941/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The estimates presented below are derived from the CSO’s Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources. This analysis is based primarily on the Revenue Commissioner’s P35L data which provides details of gross annual earnings and number of weeks worked in the year for all employments. This includes employees who held more than one job during the year; each job is counted as a separate employment.

In 2014, the median pay derived from this data source was €528.81 per week. Half of all employments had weekly pay above this amount and half were below. Two thirds of median weekly pay was €352.19 per week. An estimated 29% of all employments were below this figure and 71% were above.