Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason garda inspectors newly promoted to the rank of superintendent receive a higher remuneration than existing superintendents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16697/18]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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My Department is not aware of any case where a newly promoted Superintendent earns more than one of his or her longer serving colleagues.  My officials have engaged with the Association of Garda Superintendents on the issue of pay on promotion to Superintendent and will be pleased to so again, if the Association requires further clarification.

The recent decision by the Association of Garda Superintendents to sign up to the public service pay agreement (the PSSA) and the subsequent arbitration award have, I hope, gone some way to addressing the genuinely felt grievance of the Association in relation to pay and has helped to address an anomaly that arose from the Labour Court recommendation in favour of the GRA and AGSI in 2016.