asked the Minister for the Environment the current weekly rates of pay of storemen in the road departments of each county council on the commencement of the first phase of the National Understanding, 1980.

Statistics of wage rates are not normally kept by my Department in respect of the employees referred to in the question.

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asked the Minister for the Environment the current weekly rates of pay of road foremen employed by each county council on the commencement of the first phase of the National Understanding, 1980.

The following is the information as supplied by the local authorities:—