asked the Minister for the Public Service the amount by which public service remuneration is expected to rise in 1981 because of the impact of the 1980 national inderstanding and the amount of special pay claims now outstanding expressed in terms of the annual cost involved if they were conceded.
Written Answers. - Public Service Remuneration.
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The addition in 1981 to the bill for public service pay, i.e. the pay of civil servants, industrial civil servants, gardaí, teachers, Defence Forces and health employees, arising from the payment of both phases of the agreement on pay policy under the second national understanding is estimated at £186.7 million. Since some of the special pay claims do not specify precisely what is being sought other than, for example, "an upward revision of pay", it is not possible to reply to the second part of the question.