Written answers
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Public Sector Pay
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out each side agreement reached with trade unions and staff associations during the recent talks that led to the draft public service agreement including for additional allowances, annual leave and higher pay rates; and if he will set out also the cost of each individual item, in tabular form. [30478/17]
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department has published details of this matter on its website:
Please find, in addition, the following table outlining the costs for those measures on which agreement was reached in the course of the recent negotiations and which will only fall to be payable should the Agreement be ratified later this year.
| Measure | Cost per annum |
|---|---|
| The consequential increase of €500 in the rate of Rent Allowance and associated salary scale consolidations for Prison Officers and Firefighters on foot of the Labour Court recommendations on An Garda Síochána. | €6.5m |
| Extension of the Rent Allowance to those small number of full-time Firefighters not already in receipt of it. | €0.25m |
| Restoration for post-2012 new entrants of allowance for radiographers working in the Breast Check Unit in the health sector; | €0.27m |
| Restoration for post-2012 new entrants of Livestock Allowance for certain technical officers in the Department of Agriculture; and | €0.09m |
| Restoration for post-2012 new entrants of Tool Allowance for craft workers in the Local Authorities, OPW, and health and education sectors. | €0.39m |
Separately, as highlighted in the published list on the website, agreement was reached at the WRC prior to the recent negotiations on 4 March this year under the framework of the existing Lansdowne Road Agreement that a number of allowances for post-2012 new entrant nurses would be restored. The annual costs associated with this element of the March nursing agreement are €4.71 million. Their restoration is also conditional on ratification of the new Agreement by the unions concerned.
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