Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 June 2015
135. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the annual cost of introducing a living wage or a minimum threshold gross salary of €11.45 per hour in his Department and the bodies under his aegis. [25357/15]
View answerMy Department currently has 7 employees who earn less than €11.45 gross per hour. If a minimum wage of €11.45 were introduced, it would present an additional cost of €20,564 gross per annum, based on the gross hours per week of 43.25 hours, to my Department. The salaries paid to employees of the bodies under the aegis of my Department are generally matters for those bodies.
