Public Service Pay and Pensions Costs
O’Leary requested quarterly public service pay and pension costs for 1980 and the first quarter of 1981; the Minister supplied a tabular reply for circulation.
asked the Minister for the Public Service the cost of public service pay and pensions in the first quarter of 1981 and in each quarter of 1980.
Comment on this
As the reply is in the form of a tabular statement, I propose, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, to circulate it with the Official Report.
The following is the information requested:
Notes:
1. The term "public service pay and pensions" covers the pay and pensions of civil servants, industrial civil servants. Defence Forces, Garda, teachers and employees in the health area.
2. The information given above is derived from returns made by Departments in the course of each year. The total for the year 1980 may be subject to minor adjustment when the accounts are finalised.
3. Expenditure in any particular quarter is affected by, inter alia, the number of paydays and the payment of any non-recurring arrears of pay increases which fall due in the quarter.