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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 9 Jul 1992

Vol. 422 No. 5

Written Answers. - Oireachtas Staff Pay Award.

Ruairí Quinn

Question:

73 Mr. Quinn asked the Minister for Finance when the second phase of an increase, awarded to secretarial assistants of the Oireachtas staff members following industrial action, will be paid as this was due in March 1992; if he will confirm that the third phase, due in September 1992 will be paid on time; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

It was agreed that a pay increase, which was accepted in settlement of the Oireachtas secretaries' dispute, would be implemented under Clause 3.4 of the Elaboration of Clause 3 of the 1987 Agreement on Pay in the Public Service (i.e. 40 per cent with effect from 1 May 1991, 30 per cent with effect from 1 March 1992, and 30 per cent with effect from 1 September 1992). The secretarial assistants, like all groups-grades getting a pay increase under Clause 3.4, received the first instalment of their increase on 1 May 1991.

Subsequently, application of the terms of Clause 3.4 was modified, as part of a package of proposals introduced by the Government in January 1992, due to the very difficult budgetary situation faced by the Government going into 1992. Under the revised arrangements, the Government propose to increase, with effect from 1 December 1992, the pay rates of all those who have obtained special pay increases under Clause 3.4 to the levels which would have been payable under the previously agreed phasing arrangements. In January 1993, full retrospection to the due dates will be paid.

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