Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 July 2023
63. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the current allowances for security and other defence duties; the value of each; when those were last increased; the value of the increase; the number of recipients of each, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34639/23]
View answerI am informed by the Department's Finance Branch that, given the considerable number of allowances that exist in the Defence Forces (which is is published and routinely updated on military.ie, and is available at the following link: Current Competitions - Defence Forces (military.ie)), that it will not possible to collate the required information within the time-frame available.
My officials are working on compiling this information and I shall provide the information to the Deputy as soon as it becomes available.
The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51.
The list of all Permanent Defence Force (PDF) Allowances, for both Enlisted and Officer personnel, broken down as follows: The value of each allowance
• When the allowance was last increased
• The value of the most recent increase
• The number in receipt of each allowance (as of 20th July 2023)
It is important to note that under the current National Pay Deal – Building Momentum – all those allowances deemed to be in the nature of pay, which is the vast majority of PDF Allowances, were increased in tandem with basic pay. The most recent increase was on 1st March last, or 2%. As such, PDF personnel have benefited from increases in remuneration both to core pay rates, and to allowances, under each round of increases under the Building Momentum pay agreement and its extension.
