Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when outstanding pay rises for public servants will be paid. [10096/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Building Momentum Public Service Agreement 2021-2022 provides for the following pay adjustments over the period of the Agreement:

- a general round increase in annualised basic salary for all public servants of 1% or €500, whichever is greater, on 1 October 2021;

- the equivalent of a 1% increase in annualised basis salaries to be used as a sectoral bargaining fund on 1 February 2022; and

- a general round increase in annualised basic salary for all public servants of 1% or €500, whichever is greater, on 1 October 2022.

Moreover, in accordance with section 5.7 of the Agreement, a review of Building Momentum was conducted in acknowledgement of changes to the underlying assumptions of the Agreement regarding inflation. This review resulted in agreement on the following pay adjustments in addition to the existing pay terms of Building Momentum:

- an increase in annualised basic salaries for public servants of 3% on 2 February 2022;

- an increase in annualised basic salaries for public servants of 2% on 1 March 2023; and

- an increase in annualised basic salaries for public servants of 1.5% or €750, whichever is greater, on 1 October 2023.

In respect of each such pay adjustment, notifications and/or circulars issue from my Department to the public sector employers under the aegis of my Department. It is then a matter for each such employer to apply the relevant pay adjustment in respect of its public servants.