Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 June 2015
182. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimum threshold gross salary of €11.45 per hour in his Department and the bodies under his aegis. [25352/15]
View answerMy Department has undertaken no costing of the initiative outlined by the Deputy as the introduction of any such scheme would necessarily have to take place on a cross Governmental basis and costs determined centrally as part of the Estimates budgetary process. On a purely indicative basis it is not anticipated that the introduction of such a scheme in my own Department would incur significant cost as the majority of staff are on salary points above that mentioned by the Deputy.
