Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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185. To ask the Minister for Finance the average wage, the average industrial wage, and the average public sector wage for each year from 1997 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60755/22]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Although earnings statistics have been produced in Ireland for many years, predominantly for the Industrial sector, the focus and means of collecting the data has evolved over time. However changes to methodologies mean that statistics produced are not available or directly comparable over the time horizon outlined in your enquiry.

For directly comparable statistics on recent developments in wages by sector, I have included data from the Earnings and Labour Costs (EHECS) survey from 2008 to 2022. The purpose of the EHECS survey is to provide timely and comparable quarterly and annual earnings and labour costs statistics across economic sectors in Ireland. However the data collected ‘’is not directly comparable with other discontinued short-term earnings surveys such as the Quarterly Industrial Inquiry (QII), the Quarterly Services Inquiry (QSI) and the Quarterly Earnings and Hours worked in Construction (QEC) releases.’’ 

The data from EHECS included below represents the average weekly earnings of all NACE economic sectors (average wage), the manufacturing sector (proxy for industrial wage) and the public sector. Some care should be taken when interpreting the data post-2019 as a result of compositional affects arising from the impact of the pandemic on the labour market. During the pandemic, measures were distorted as average wages increased mechanically due to the impact of containment measures in lower paid sectors and on lower paid workers.  Therefore, developments over the pandemic years should be interpreted with caution.

Average Weekly Earnings in euros, nominal, CSO EHECS Survey*

*2022 represents an average of the three quarters of data available.

*The earnings data collected for the EHECS includes bonuses and other irregular earnings.

Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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186. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the categories of public sector workers and civil servants under his Department whose contracts fall under the Croke Park Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60770/22]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the Croke Park Agreement encompassed all civil and public servants under my Department. No distinction was made between categories of civil servants under the Agreement. The sectoral agreement in relation to the Civil Service and Non-Commercial State-Sponsored Bodies is attached for the Deputy’s information.

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