Written answers

Thursday, 21 June 2018

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Public Sector Pay

Photo of Bríd SmithBríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to renew FEMPI legislation in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27210/18]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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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. 

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, section 19 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act for those covered by the Agreement states these remaining amounts will be paid no later than July 2022.

I am obliged under Section 12 of the FEMPI Act 2013, to undertake an Annual Review of the operation, effectiveness and impact of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts (FEMPI) which is to be laid before the Oireachtas by the 30th June each year. That report is currently being prepared for laying before both Houses of the Oireachtas.

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