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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 11 Oct 1978

Vol. 308 No. 1

Written Answers. - Council Workers' Wages.

493.

asked the Minister for the Environment the weekly rates of pay applicable to county council gangers, foremen and overseers, under the first phase of the 1978 Wage Agreement, in the form of a reply to Question No. 297 of 13 October 1977.

The up-to-date rates of pay, as supplied by the local authorities concerned, are set out in the tabular statement below.

County Council

Weekly wage rates

(a) Ganger

(b) Foreman

(c) Overseer

£

£

Carlow

56.13

59.62

Scale:

£63.07×£1.10-

£71.87×£1.17-

£73.04

Cavan

55.82

59.30

,,

Clare

53.80

,,

Class I £59.42

Class II £57.89

Cork

60.33

£60.34

Donegal

53.09

56.52

£59.89

Dublin

Min 56.03

Min 58.51

£64.38

Max 57.90

Max 60.74

Scale:

Galway Rural

56.23

59.72

£63.07×£1.10-

Ballinasloe

57.29

60.76

£71.87×£1.17-

Galway City

59.25

62.72

£73.04

Kerry

54.81

60.12

,,

Kildare

54.69

57.89

,,

Kilkenny

Rural £56.09

,,

Urban £57.76

Laois

55.84

59.25

,,

Leitrim

52.29

55.73

£59.21

Limerick

55.96

59.50

Scale:

£63.07×£1.10-

£71.87×£1.17-

£73.04

Longford

55.70

59.12

£59.11

Louth

55.77

59.25

Scale:

£63.07×£1.10-

£71.87×£1.17-

£73.04

Mayo

Rural 56.23

Rural 59.66

,,

Urban 58.46

Urban 61.89

Meath (under six men in gang) (six men or more in gang)

54.20

59.16

,,

55.87

Monaghan

51.66

54.39

,,

Offaly

55.85

59.30

,,

Roscommon

55.75

59.22

,,

Sligo

55.82

59.23

,,

Tipperary (NR)

57.25

60.70

,,

Tipperary (SR)

56.28

59.78

,,

Waterford

55.86

59.35

,,

Westmeath

Rural 55.74

59.16

,,

Urban 56.66

Wexford

55.83

59.29

,,

Wicklow

56.55

,,

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