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TD's Due To Get A Pay Rise Of Over €1,000 A Few Days After The Budget

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It will bring their basic pay up to €102,204.

TDs are due their next pay rise worth over €1,000 only days after the Budget. A 1% increase will be paid on October 1 under the Building Momentum wage deal, a few days after the budget.

It will bring their basic pay up to €102,204.

TD's are likely to receive an additional 3% increase that will push their salary above €105,000 and get a lump sum of about €2,500 in the following weeks.

Public servants are balloting on whether to accept the proposed 3% increase and other wage hikes that were agreed as part of a review of their pay deal.

TD's pay is already above Celtic Tiger levels, when it reached its highest point of €100,191 in 2008.

Higher Education Minister Simon Harris says public sector pay increases apply across the board:

 

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