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Irish Public Service Pay Bill Cut by €1.5 Billion in Two Years |
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peoplemanagement.co.uk |
| Source Date: |
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 |
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Institution and HR Management
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Ireland |
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Nov 18, 2010 |
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Ireland’s
public service pay and pensions bill more than doubled from €8.6
billion in 2000 to €18.8 billion in 2008, but has dropped back in the
last two years, new research has shown.
The report ‘Public Sector
Trends 2010’ by the Institute of Public Administration found that the
total bill now stands at €17.3 billion this year, as a result of pay
cuts and a reduction in headcount.
The most rapid decline in pay
and numbers in the last two years has happened in the security sector,
with cuts in the Gardai and army outpacing those in the general civil
service.
But the report’s author, Richard Boyle of the IPA, says
that any attempt to curb the pay bill further to reduce the country’s
deficit will have to concentrate on health and education, which between
them account for 75 per cent of the paybill.
Numbers employed also
rose rapidly from 295,000 in 2000 to 347,000 today, but have fallen by
around 3 per cent since 2008 as the recession began to bite.
While
there have been ongoing plans by the government to cut back on the
hundreds of government funded agencies (quangos) created in the last ten
years, the report points out that they constitute just 4 per cent of
total public sector employment and 4 per cent of the paybill.
“Even
with rationalisation the impact of cutbacks will be minimal when put in
the context of the public sector as a whole” says the report.
Boyle
also notes that while the quality of Irish public administration has
always been slightly above European average, trust in government has
fallen rapidly since 2008 and this is starting to affect trust in the
public service.
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Irish Public Service Pay Bill Cut by €1.5 Billion in Two Years Ireland’s public service pay and pensions bill more than doubled from €8.6 billion in 2000 to €18.8 billion in 2008 but has dropped back in the last two years new research has shown
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