Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity)
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670. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects the Public Sector Pay Commission to complete its work and publish a report. [20053/17]

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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675. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received the Public Service Pay Commission's draft report; his plans to implement recommendations to realign the pay of new entrant teachers with the pay of their longer-serving colleagues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20485/17]

Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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676. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Public Service Pay Commission report will be published; the Government's timeframe to end pay inequality for teachers who qualified after 2011 in view of the fact that it is now six years since these measures came into effect; when a decision will be made to reverse the cuts in pay for new entrant teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20509/17]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 670, 675 and 676 together.

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.

The Commission is expected to report shortly. It is intended that, following consideration by Government, the report will be published.

The issue of 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. Furthermore, flexibility provided for within the Lansdowne Road Agreement has allowed particular sectoral issues to be addressed more recently such as the restoration of supervision and substitution payments and new entrant payments in the Education Sector.