asked the Minister for Finance if he will state in respect of each of the years 1947-48 to 1956-57 (a) the number of awards granted under the scheme of conciliation and arbitration for the Civil Service, and (b) the date of, percentage increase involved in, and the cost to the State of each award.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Civil Service Awards.
The reply is in the form of tabular statements which, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.
REVISIONS IN CIVIL SERVICE PAY, ALLOWANCES, ETC., EFFECTED UNDER THE SCHEME OF CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION.
I. GENERAL REVISIONS OF CIVIL SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES.
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Year |
Operative Date |
Approximate Percentage Additions |
Annual Cost |
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1950/51 |
15/1/1951 |
Pay: |
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(a) On the portion of pay up to £200 a year |
15% |
£1,355,000 |
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(b) On the portion of pay exceeding £200 a year but not exceeding £965 a year |
10% |
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Allowances: |
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Allowances in the nature of pay (other than children's allowances) |
7½% |
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1952/53 |
1/11/1952 |
Pay: |
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Percentage additions of 27½% and 15%, respectively, substituted for the percentages of 15% and 10% at (a) and (b) above |
£980,000 |
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Allowances: |
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Allowances in the nature of pay (other than children's allowances) |
5% on existing gross amount. |
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Children's allowances |
Increased from £25 to £27 per child (subject to maximum in such allowances to any officer of £135). |
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1955/56 |
1/11/1955 |
Pay: |
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Figure of £250 substituted for £200 at (a) and (b) above and percentage additions of 37½% and 22½%, respectively, substituted for percentage additions applicable since 1 November, 1952 |
£1,169,000 |
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Allowances: |
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Allowances in the nature of pay (other than children's allowances) |
5% on existing gross amount. |
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Children's allowances |
Increased from £27 to £28 per child (subject to maximum in such allowances to any officer of £140). |
II. REVISIONS FOR SPECIFIC GRADES.
Year 1950/51
Number of revisions 4
Approximate total annual cost £30,560
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Operative Date |
Grades affected |
Approximate Annual Cost |
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£ |
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1/11/1950 |
Telephonists-in-Training |
60 |
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5/2/1951 |
Various postal and telephone grades |
25,000 |
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5/2/1951 |
Various temporary postal and telephone grades |
2,000 |
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5/2/1951 |
Auxiliary Postmen and Allowance Delivers |
3,500 |
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Year 1951/52 |
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Number of revisions14 |
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Approximate total annual cost£138,609 |
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1/4/1951 |
Customs and Excise Officers |
34,840 |
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1/4/1951 |
Customs and Excise Clerical grades (including upgrading) |
8,000 |
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1/4/1951 |
Customs and Excise preventive staff |
21,600 |
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1/4/1951 |
Post Office Engineering Branch manipulative staff |
48,000 |
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7/5/1951 |
Forestry Inspectors |
560 |
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26/5/1951 |
Social Welfare Supervisors |
2,300 |
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8/6/1951 |
Attendants, Houses of the Oireachtas |
45 |
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8/6/1951 |
Prison Officers (annual leave and overtime) |
900 |
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11/6/1951 |
Estate Duty Office, examiner grades |
1,300 |
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11/6/1951 |
Stamping Branch grades, Office of the Revenue Commissioners |
910 |
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12/6/1951 |
Post Office controlling grades |
9,900 |
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21/6/1951 |
Post Office Engineering Inspectors |
10,000 |
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28/6/1951 |
Technical Assistants, Grade I, Valuation Office |
140 |
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28/12/1951 |
Certain Attendant posts, Dundrum Asylum (upgrading) |
114 |
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Year 1952/53 |
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Number of revisions21 |
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Approximate total annual cost£68,225 |
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1/4/1952 |
General revision of subsistence allowances |
28,000 |
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1/4/1952 |
Revision of certain Post Office subsistence allowances |
1,400 |
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1/4/1952 |
Postal grades (revision of trip allowances) |
2,000 |
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1/4/1952 |
Customs and Excise Officers (disturbance allowances) |
815 |
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1/4/1952 |
Social Welfare Supervisors (commuted allowances) |
260 |
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1/4/1952 |
Social Welfare Officers (disturbance allowances and composite travelling rates) |
200 |
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1/4/1952 |
Sickness Visitors, Department of Social Welfare (subsistence allowances) |
113 |
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13/5/1952 |
Attendants, Dundrum Asylum (rent allowances) |
200 |
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1/10/1952 |
General Revision of motor mileage rates |
12,700 |
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19/12/1952 |
Telephone and Telegraph Mechanics |
1,450 |
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19/12/1952 |
Typists and Shorthand Typists |
11,000 |
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23/12/1952 |
Sorting Assistant Overseers |
165 |
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24/12/1952 |
Assistant Superintendents, Ordnance Survey |
250 |
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24/12/1952 |
Male Night Telephone Supervisors |
585 |
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24/12/1952 |
Female Telephone Supervisors |
1,800 |
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Following |
General Service Messengers (establishment) |
4,000 |
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1/1/1953 |
(ultimately) |
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12/1/1953 |
Senior Clerks, Houses of the Oireachtas |
132 |
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7/2/1953 |
Watchers, Customs and Excise |
1,700 |
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26/3/1953 |
Prison Officers (Overtime) |
170 |
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27/3/1953 |
Certain Post Office Stores Branch grades |
335 |
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31/3/1953 |
Radio Eireann Actors |
950 |
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Year 1953/54 |
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Number of revisions19 |
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Approximate total annual cost£78,567 |
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20/4/1953 |
Superintendent of Administration, Valuation Office |
17 |
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20/4/1953 |
Ordnance Survey grades (field allowances) |
400 |
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20/4/1953 |
Postmasters |
6,800 |
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29/5/1953 |
Certain professional grades, Department of Agriculture |
530 |
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1/7/1953 |
Taxes clerical grades |
15,000 |
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1/10/1953 |
Social Welfare Officers |
8,500 |
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19/10/1953 |
Clerk Shorthand Typist, Department of External Affairs |
10 |
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23/10/1953 |
Post Office Engineers |
12,700 |
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20/11/1953 |
Marine Surveyor grades, Department of Industry and Commerce |
1,150 |
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16/12/1953 |
Unestablished classes and part-time employees (sick pay) |
12,000 |
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21/12/1953 |
Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Office of Public Works |
2,270 |
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30/12/1953 |
Radio Éireann Orchestras |
7,800 |
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1/1/1954 |
Certain Post Office grades (night subsistence allowances) |
5,700 |
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22/1/1954 |
Circuit Court clerical and typing staff (regarding) |
3,300 |
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10/2/1954 |
Aviation Radio Operators and Supervising Grades |
650 |
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25/2/1954 |
Chemists, State Laboratory |
780 |
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4/3/1954 |
Chemical Assistants, State Laboratory |
160 |
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5/3/1954 |
Surveyors and Supervising grades, Department of Lands |
500 |
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23/3/1954 |
Post Office Engineers (“On call” allowances) |
300 |
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Year 1954/55 |
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Number of revisions:26 |
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Approximate total annual cost£215,055 |
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10/5/1954 |
Examiners, Industrial and Commercial, Property Registration Office |
530 |
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14/5/1954 |
Junior Marketing Inspectors |
1,300 |
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27/5/1954 |
Seed Analysts |
340 |
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10/7/1954 |
Instructors in Cow Testing |
500 |
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22/7/1954 |
Certain Radio Eireann staff |
3,000 |
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30/8/1954 |
Chemists, Johnstown Castle |
350 |
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3/9/1954 |
Certain Supreme and High Court Officers |
550 |
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24/9/1954 |
Certain grades in the Prisons Service |
600 |
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(Following) |
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18/10/1954 |
Establishment of proportion of unestablished classes |
34,000 |
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(ultimately) |
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28/10/1954 |
Postal Inspectorate |
1,600 |
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30/11/1954 |
Printing and Binding Clerks, Stationery Office |
100 |
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21/12/1954 |
Postman grades |
124,000 |
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24/12/1954 |
Auditors, Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General |
1,400 |
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1/1/1955 |
Basic professional grades |
12,500 |
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1/1/1955 |
Temporary Engineering Assistants, Department of Local Government |
1,600 |
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1/1/1955 |
Temporary Engineering staff, Office of Public Works |
3,000 |
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1/1/1955 |
Temporary Engineering staff, Department of Industry and Commerce |
900 |
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1/1/1955 |
Various grades (starting pay of unestablished and temporary officers who secure established posts through confined competitions) |
6,000 |
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1/1/1955 |
Unestablished Inspectors Grade III, Special Employment Schemes Office (including improved status) |
4,600 |
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1/1/1955 |
Junior Inspectors, Dairy Produce and Eggs |
1,400 |
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1/1/1955 |
Temporary Surveyors, Office of Public Works |
700 |
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6/1/1955 |
Customs and Excise Preventive staff (overtime) |
2,500 |
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26/1/1955 |
Forester grades |
8,000 |
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14/2/1955 |
Temporary Chemists, State Laboratory |
350 |
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9/3/1955 |
District Inspectors, Primary Branch, Department of Education |
4,850 |
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9/3/1955 |
Post Office investigation staff |
385 |
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Year 1955/56 |
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Number of revisions:61 |
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Approximate total annual cost£256,284 |
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1/4/1955 |
Officers in Air Traffic Control Service (shift working allowances) |
100 |
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1/4/1955 |
Temporary Engineers in promotion grades, Office of Public Works |
1,300 |
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1/4/1955 |
Certain promotion grades in professional classes |
15,000 |
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9/4/1955 |
Certain Drainage and Reclamation Supervisors, Department of Agriculture (improved status) |
5,900 |
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14/4/1955 |
Assistant Librarian, Houses of the Oireachtas |
50 |
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1/5/1955 |
Post Office Clerks |
45,600 |
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1/5/1955 |
Post Office Adult Messengers |
290 |
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1/5/1955 |
Postal Sorters |
13,500 |
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1/5/1955 |
Telephonists (Male and Female) |
33,870 |
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1/5/1955 |
Post Office Boy Messengers |
2,500 |
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1/5/1955 |
Post Office Learners |
1,000 |
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1/5/1955 |
Post Office Head Messenger |
45 |
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2/5/1955 |
Sickness Visitors, Department of Social Welfare (regrading and revised allowances) |
400 |
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17/5/1955 |
Post Office Storeboys (Juveniles) (reduction in hours) |
90 |
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10/6/1955 |
Furniture Branch staff, Office of Public Works |
250 |
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16/6/1955 |
Senior Translators and Deputy Chief Translator, Houses of the Oireachtas |
445 |
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17/6/1955 |
Customs and Excise Officers (annual leave) |
800 |
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20/6/1955 |
Attendants, Dundrum Asylum |
135 |
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24/6/1955 |
Air Traffic Control Officers, Grades II and III |
700 |
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2/7/1955 |
Certain Post Office grades (subsistence and disturbance allowances) |
5,300 |
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4/7/1955 |
Probation Officer grades |
320 |
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20/7/1955 |
Temporary Architectural Assistants |
600 |
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23/7/1955 |
Forestry Inspectors |
3,000 |
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23/7/1955 |
Local Agents, Department of Social Welfare |
1,600 |
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25/7/1955 |
Post Office Foremen and Assistant Foremen |
300 |
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30/7/1955 |
Telephone Traffic Superintendents |
3,000 |
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1/9/1955 |
Head Messengers (General Service) |
500 |
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1/9/1955 |
Engineering and Mapping Draftsman grades |
7,300 |
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6/9/1955 |
Post Office Inspectors of Services, Grades I and II |
400 |
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12/9/1955 |
Clerical Officers (General Service) |
38,000 |
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6/10/1955 |
Certain technical grades, Department of Agriculture (including regrading) |
6,000 |
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7/10/1955 |
Telephone Officers |
3,400 |
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22/10/1955 |
District Court Clerks (Provincial Areas) |
5,000 |
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5/11/1955 |
Assistant Warehouse Supervisor, Stationery Office |
100 |
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9/11/1955 |
Manageress grades, Gaeltacht Services |
400 |
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9/11/1955 |
Certain Department of Agriculture grades |
210 |
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14/11/1955 |
Staff Officers, Grade III |
20,000 |
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(includes cost of subsequent pay revision of certain related grades). |
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14/11/1955 |
Messengers (General Service) |
7,400 |
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14/11/1955 |
Post Office Doorkeepers and Liftmen |
1,350 |
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15/11/1955 |
Post Office Registry Officers |
84 |
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15/11/1955 |
Certain Meteorological grades. (Modification of scheme for promotion of Meteorological Assistants and Senior Meteorological Assistants to Meteorological Officer) |
200 |
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17/11/1955 |
Certain Telephone Supervising grades |
900 |
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21/11/1955 |
Editorial and Reporting staff, Houses of the Oireachtas |
1,100 |
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25/11/1955 |
Printing and Binding Clerks, Stationery Office |
200 |
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30/11/1955 |
Departmental Clerical Officers, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (special increment) |
300 |
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6/12/1955 |
Stationery Clerk, Houses of the Oireachtas |
30 |
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7/12/1955 |
Usher grades, Houses of the Oireachtas (including regradings and allowances) |
200 |
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8/12/1955 |
Officers of Air Traffic Control Service, Dublin Airport (night duty allowances) |
30 |
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29/12/1955 |
Attendants and Storekeeper, State Laboratory |
80 |
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31/12/1955 |
Senior Library Assistant and First Class Assistants, National Library |
300 |
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3/1/1956 |
Record Clerks, Land Commission |
80 |
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5/1/1956 |
Tax Officers and Departmental Clerical Officers, Office of the Revenue Commissioners |
1,400 |
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9/1/1956 |
Foresters (accommodation allowances) |
250 |
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13/1/1956 |
Post Office Cleaners |
4,000 |
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1/2/1956 |
Grades paid on the marriage-differentiated system (payment of allowances in respect of adopted children) |
1,000 |
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15/2/1956 |
Customs and Excise Watchers and Extramen (Overtime) |
1,600 |
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29/2/1956 |
Attendant staff, Institutions of Science and Art (including regrading) |
675 |
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1/3/1956 |
Cleaners (Men) |
1,500 |
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1/3/1956 |
Assistant Solicitors and Legal Assistants |
1,500 |
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7/3/1956 |
Paperkeepers and Paperkeeper Messengers (including regrading) |
3,000 |
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21/3/1956 |
Temporary Clerical and Typing staff (General Service) |
11,500 |
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Year 1956/57 (to date). |
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Number of revisions2 |
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Approximate total annual cost£33,830 |
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1/4/1956 |
Higher Executive Officers and Executive Officers |
33,000 |
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30/4/1956 |
Organising Inspector grades, Department of Education |
830 |
NOTES.
1. No scheme of conciliation and arbitration for the Civil Service was in operation prior to 1st June, 1950. Accordingly, the reply is confined to the years from 1950/51 to 1956/57.
2. The statement, compiled from the available records, shows such revisions made under the scheme as have affected staff costs.
3. Except where otherwise indicated the revisions relate to pay.
4. Revisions specifically in the form of percentage additions have been applied only to claims for a general increase in Civil Service pay.