Cormac Devlin
Question:30. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all public sector workers will be receiving a pay rise on 1 October 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45686/21]
View answerThursday, 23 September 2021
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Section 3.1.3 of Building Momentum - A New Public Service Agreement 2021-2022 provides for a general round increase in annualised basic salary for all public servants of 1% or €500, whichever is greater, on October 2021.
Under section 19 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017, public servants with annualised basic salaries of up to €150,000 were due full FEMPI restoration on 1 July 2021. This brought the proportion of public servants whose salaries have been restored to pre-FEMPI levels to 99%. Those with annualised basic salaries of over €150,000 will be due full FEMPI restoration on 1 July 2022, in line with section 20 of the Act.
Section 3.1.4. of Building Momentum states that public servants who are due an amount of pay restoration in 2021 or 2022, under Section 19 and 20 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017, respectively, will not receive the general round increase in that year. However, if the amount of restoration due is less than the general round increase, they will be paid the balance on the date of the general round increase.
The benefits of the Agreement will be confined to those employees represented by unions in membership of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions or other unions or representative associations which have notified the WRC of their intention to comply with the Agreement. The vast majority of public service unions have signed up to the public service Agreement.