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asked the Minister for Finance the inclusive married scales for principal officers and assistant principal officers in the Department of Finance and in outside Departments operative (a) on 31st December, 1959, and (b) on 1st January, 1960, and the reasons as to why the increases granted to Department of Finance personnel as from 1st January, 1960, were not granted to officers in the same grade in outside Departments.
13.
asked the Minister for Finance the inclusive married scale for principal officers and assistant principal officers in the Department of Finance and in outside Departments operative on (a) 31st December, 1959, and (b) 1st January, 1960; and if he will give the reasons as to why the increases granted to Department of Finance personnel as from 18th January, 1960, were not granted to officers in the same grades in outside Departments.
14.
asked the Minister for Finance the inclusive married scales for principal officers and assistant principal officers in the Department of Finance and in other Departments operative (a) on 31st December, 1959, and (b) on 1st January, 1960; and if he will give the reasons why the increases granted to Department of Finance personnel as from 1st January, 1960, were not granted to officers in the same grades in outside Departments.
I propose, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, to take Questions Nos. 12, 13 and 14 together.
The details requested in the first part of the questions are set out in tabular statements which, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, will be circulated with the Official Report. In regard to the second part, increases were not granted to general service Principals and Assistant Principals as from January, 1960, because they had already received increases with effect from 1st August, 1959, and 1st April, 1958, respectively.
Following are the statements:—
Salary Scales of certain Officers in the Department of Finance
|
Grade |
Scale on 31/12/59 |
Scale on 1/1/60 |
|
Principal |
£1,755—2,180 |
£1,855—2,280 |
|
Assistant Principal |
£1,430—1,755 |
£1,470—1,855 |
Salary Scales of General Service Principals
|
Scale on 31/7/59 |
Scale on 1/8/59 |
Scale on 31/12/59 and 1/1/60 |
|
£1,630—1,832 |
£1,630—1,936 |
£1,755—2,075 |
Salary Scales of General Service Assistant Principals
|
Scale on 31/3/58 |
Scale on 1/4/58 |
Scale on 31/12/59 and 1/1/60 |
|
£1,255—1,414 |
£1,256—1,526 |
£1,360—1,645 |
NOTES:
1. The scales shown are those for married men or unmarried men whose remuneration is not governed by differentiation on a marriage basis.
2. A revision of Civil Service pay generally applied with effect from 15th December, 1959.
Would the Minister agree that the effect of the increase given to these people was to widen again the margin between the people in the Department of Finance and those in other Departments of State? It was undesirable to create that difference.
When the Deputy reads my reply, he will see it narrows it.
For a while but it has since been enlarged.
Not for a while but for all time.
