Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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197. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the bodies under his aegis in which persons will receive a pay rise from 1 July 2022; the role of each, where appropriate, or the anonymised salaries bands otherwise, the current remuneration and the proposed increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35857/22]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The process of unwinding the Financial Emergency (FEMPI) legislation commenced under the Lansdowne Road Agreement 2016-2018, with the remainder of the process largely completed under the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020 and ‘Building Momentum: A New Public Service Agreement, 2021-2022’.

By 1 July, 2021, salary rates up to €150,000, which account for 99% of the Public Service, had been fully restored.

Section 20 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act, 2017, set out that restoration for public servants with annualised basic salaries above €150,000 would be completed by Ministerial Order by 1 July, 2022.  In accordance with the legislation, an Order under Section 20 of the Act was laid before the Oireachtas on 30 June, 2022.

The majority of posts (over 90%) impacted by restoration on 1 July, 2022 are medical consultants.  For General Service Grades in the Civil Service, Circular 15/2022 sets out the salary rates with effect from 1 July, 2022.  This Circular is available on the Government website (www.gov.ie/en/circulars/).  The rates that applied prior to the adjustment on 1 July, 2022 are set out in Circular 04/2022, which is also available on the Government website.

In respect of my Department and the bodies under its aegis, there are three posts encompassed by restoration under the Order.  These are:

- Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Secretary General Level I)

- Chairman, Office of Public Works (salary rate equivalent to Secretary General Level III)

- Ombudsman, Office of the Ombudsman (salary rate equivalent to Secretary General Level III)

The salary rates for these posts are as set out in Circular 15/2022.