Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 23 Mar 1977

Vol. 298 No. 2

Written Answers. - Workers' Pay Rates.

58.

Mr. B. Desmond

asked the Taoiseach the revised rates of pay for forest workers, county council road workers and agricultural workers in the form of a reply of 26th October, 1976.

The Taoiseach

The following statement gives, for each county, (a) the basic weekly rate of wages paid to forestry workers for a 40-hour week. An incentive bonus is payable in addition to these rates, (b) weekly rates of wages, excluding service pay, paid by county councils to road workers for a 40-hour week, (c) statutory minimum remuneration (weekly rates) payable to adult agricultural workers under the employment regulation order of the Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee. These rates apply to a 45-hour week in the period March to October inclusive and a 42½ hour week during the remainder of the year.

In the case of forestry and road workers the rates quoted incorporate the first phase of the 1977 national wage agreement and will come into effect on 1st April next. The rates for agricultural workers came into effect on 1st March, 1977.

County	Forestry workers	Road workers*	Adult agricultural workers
	(a)	(b)	(c)
	£	£	£
Carlow	41.96	42.83	38.50
Dublin	42.87	47.46	38.90
Kildare	42.39	41.66	38.50
Kilkenny	41.96	42.67	38.50
Laoighis	41.96	42.47	38.50
Longford	41.96	42.40	38.50
Louth	41.96	42.44	38.50
Meath	41.96	42.52	38.50
Offaly	41.96	42.46	38.50
Westmeath	41.96	42.39	38.50
Wexford	41.96	42.47	38.50
Wicklow	42.39	43.12	38.50(i)
Clare	41.96	42.59	38.50
Cork	41.96	40.29	38.90(ii)
Kerry	41.96	43.20	38.50
Limerick	41.96	42.65	38.50
Tipperary NR	41.96	43.67	38.50
Tipperary SR	41.96	42.87	38.50
Waterford	41.96	42.45	38.50
Galway	41.96	42.46	38.50
Leitrim	41.96	42.53	38.50
Mayo	41.96	42.81	38.50
Roscommon	41.96	42.45	38.50
Sligo	41.96	42.52	38.50
Cavan	41.96	42.46	38.50
Donegal	41.96	43.20	38.50
Monaghan	41.96	42.63	38.50

*As a number of County Councils have not as yet furnished particulars of the new rates the figures shown are estimated rates.

(i) Rate of £38.90 per week in the Urban District of Bray.

(ii) Rate of £38.50 per week in the Western portion of the County as defined in the Employment Regulation Order of the Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee on 28 February, 1977.