Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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167. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the outstanding policies of financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation pertaining to pay restoration. [26317/18]

Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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168. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of unwinding financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, and restoring pay disaggregated by salary brackets. [26318/18]

Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of unwinding financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, and restoring pay disaggregated by department and public role, for example, nurses or teachers and so on. [26319/18]

Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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170. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of unwinding financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, according to the current approach. [26320/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 to 170, inclusive, together.

The unwinding of the emergency FEMPI legislation commenced with the Lansdowne Road Agreement 2016-2018 and will be completed under the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018 -2020 (PSSA). In relation to the PSSA, the measures agreed were given legal effect through the enactment of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017. The PSSA also makes provision for pay increases to be made to those public servants for whom FEMPI pay measures have already been unwound.

The cost of the PSSA Agreement in the years 2018-2020 is €887m. Carry over costs of €227m associated with the final 2% pay increase in October 2020 fall in 2021. In addition a further €78m is required to complete FEMPI restoration for those public servants whose salary will not be fully restored (those on annualised remuneration greater than €70,000) through the PSSA increases. Under section 19 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act for those covered by the Agreement, these remaining amounts will be paid no later than July 2022. In total the costs associated with the agreed unwinding of remaining FEMPI measures is €1.2bn.

A breakdown of the estimated remaining costs of FEMPI unwinding post 2020 by salary band (disaggregation by profession, grade or post is not available) is detailed in the table. These do not sum to the total indicated above because of costs associated with the conversion of the existing Pension Related Deduction (PRD) into an Additional Superannuation Contribution (ASC) with effect from 1 January 2019 as provided for in the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017.  The costs arising from the implementation of the ASC are included in the total cost of the PSSA of €887m for the years 2018-2020.

Annual costs are disaggregated by Vote group as part of the Budget process. Work on this has not yet commenced for Budget 2019.