As the Deputy will be aware, the reduced scales for persons recruited to certain direct entry grades in the public service, as implemented in Department of Finance Circular 18/2010, were withdrawn with effect from 1 November 2013, following the issue of Department of Public Expenditure Circular 2/2014 on 30 January 2014. There are currently five full-time staff in my Department and 18 in bodies under its aegis, who are being paid on the reduced scales. I understand that, while Circular 2/2014 included details of revised pay scales for direct-entry grades to the Civil Service, details of the revised arrangements for other grades will shortly be finalised.