Written answers
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Public Sector Pay
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if public sector pay increases are incorporated within the expenditure projects in the SPU, making specific reference to the second half of 2026 and 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25805/24]
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Stability Programme Update is a no policy change, technical document that sets out the macroeconomic and expenditure picture out to 2027 on the basis of the policies announced in the last Budget (i.e. in this case Budget 2024).
In the time between the Budget and publication of the SPU the public service pay deal, which was in negotiation at the end of 2023, was ratified. The overall provision for spending of €97.1 billion for this year, set out in the SPU, reflects an uplift in expenditure to meet the costs of the public service pay agreement.
In aggregate, as per page 25 second last paragraph of the SPU, the estimated cost of the new pay agreement is €3.6 billion spread out over 2024 to 2027. This includes the second half of 2026 and an amount of carryover into 2027.
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