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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 9 Dec 1980

Vol. 325 No. 4

Written Answers. - Workers' Pay.

343.

asked the Taoiseach the minimum weekly rate of pay of county council road workers and forest and agricultural workers payable, or recommended for payment, under the first phase of the National Understanding in the form of a reply to parliamentary question No. 58 on 23 March 1977.

The following statement gives for each county, the minimum basic weekly rate of wages and the hourly equivalent of the minimum basic weekly rate of wages paid to forestry workers for a 40-hour week. An incentive bonus is payable in addition to those rates.

County

Forestry workers

Weekly Rate

Hourly Rate

£

£

Carlow

73.91

1.85

Dublin

74.54

1.86

Kildare

73.91

1.85

Kilkenny

73.91

1.85

Laoighis

73.91

1.85

Longford

73.91

1.85

Louth

73.91

1.85

Meath

73.91

1.85

Offaly

73.91

1.85

Westmeath

73.91

1.85

Wexford

73.91

1.85

Wicklow

73.91

1.85

Clare

73.91

1.85

Cork

73.91

1.85

Kerry

73.91

1.85

Limerick

73.91

1.85

Tipperary NR

73.91

1.85

Tipperary SR

73.91

1.85

Waterford

73.91

1.85

Galway

73.91

1.85

Leitrim

73.91

1.85

Mayo

73.91

1.85

Roscommon

73.91

1.85

Sligo

73.91

1.85

Cavan

73.91

1.85

Donegal

73.91

1.85

Monaghan

73.91

1.85

Information on the minimum weekly rates payable to county council road workers is not at present available. The position is that as set out in the reply of the Minister for the Environment in answer to the Deputy's question on 18 November 1980.

With regard to the minimum weekly rates payable to adult agricultural workers the position was dealt with in a reply by the Minister for Labour in response to the Deputy's question on 4 December 1980. On availability of the Labour Court's final recommendation the county rates will be communicated to the Deputy.

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