Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 23 May 1978

Vol. 306 No. 10

Written Answers. - Forest Workers' Pay.

87.

Mr. Tully

asked the Taoiseach the revised rates of pay payable to forest workers, and county council road workers under the first phase of the 1978 National Wages Agreement; and the existing minimum rates payable to agricultural workers in the form of a reply of 18 October 1978.

The Taoiseach

The following statement gives for each county, (a) the basic weekly rate of wages and the hourly equivalent to the basic weekly rate of wages paid to forestry workers for a 40-hour week. An incentive bonus is payable in addition to those rates, (b) weekly rates of wages and the hourly equivalent of the weekly rates (both excluding service pay) paid by county councils to road workers for a 40-hour week, (c) minimum weekly rates and the hourly equivalent of these rates payable to adult agricultural workers under the Employment Regulation Order (Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee) 1978, effective from 30 January 1978. These rates apply to a 42½-hour week.

In the case of forestry and road workers the rates quoted incorporate the first phase of the 1978 National Wage Agreement.

County	Forestry workers (a)	Road workers (b)*	Adult Agricultural workers (c)
Weekly Rate	Hourly Rate	Weekly Rate	Hourly Rate	Weekly Rate	Hourly Rate
	£	p	£	p	£	p
Carlow	47.53	119	48.49	121	42.50	100
Dublin	48.54	121	53.62	134	42.90	101
Kildare	48.01	120	47.20	118	42.50	100
Kilkenny	47.53	119	48.32	121	42.50	100
Laoighis	47.53	119	48.09	120	42.50	100
Longford	47.53	119	48.02	120	42.50	100
Louth	47.53	119	48.06	120	42.50	100
Meath	47.53	119	48.15	120	42.50	100
Offaly	47.53	119	48.08	120	42.50	110
Westmeath	47.53	119	48.01	120	42.50	100
Wexford	47.53	119	48.09	120	42.50	100
Wicklow	48.01	120	48.82	122	42.55(i)	100(i)
Clare	47.53	119	48.22	121	42.50	100
Cork	47.53	119	49.09	123	42.90(ii)	100(ii)
Kerry	47.53	119	48.90	122	42.50	100
Limerick	47.53	119	48.30	121	42.50	100
Tipperary N.R.	45.53	119	49.42	124	42.50	100
Tipperary S.R.	47.53	119	48.54	121	42.50	100
Waterford	47.53	119	48.07	120	42.50	100
Galway	47.53	119	48.08	120	42.50	100
Leitrim	47.53	119	48.16	120	42.50	100
Mayo	47.53	119	48.47	121	42.50	100
Roscommon	47.53	119	48.07	120	42.50	100
Sligo	47.53	119	48.15	120	42.50	100
Cavan	47.53	119	48.09	120	42.50	100
Donegal	47.53	119	48.90	122	42.50	100
Monaghan	47.53	119	42.28	121	42.50	100

óThe first phase of the National Wage Agreement 1978 came into operation in CorkCounty on 1 January 1978.

(i) Rate of £42.90 per week (101p per hour) in the Urban District of Bray.

(ii) Rate of £42.50 per week (100p per hour) in the western portion of the county as defined in the Employment Regulation Order (Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee) 1978.