Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 June 2017
174. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which the rates of pay for secretarial assistants employed by Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas were last increased; his plans to review these rates in view of the large volume of constituency work secretarial assistants deal with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29709/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe rates of pay for Secretarial Assistants were last increased on 1 September 2008 in line with similar such pay revisions for grades in the public service with whom the Secretarial Assistants would have a correspondence for pay movement purposes. However, Secretarial Assistants are employed on a direct contractual basis by Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas as well as by qualifying political parties and, as such, they were not subject to any of the following remuneration measures which applied to public servants and which included: i) pension related deductions; ii) pay reductions and iii) freezing of increments introduced under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts and the Haddington Road Agreement. In addition public servants have been required to undertake a range of ongoing work productivity related measures.
There are no plans to revise the salaries of Secretarial Assistants.
