AI Summary of 2. Reduction in public servants' remuneration.
This provision takes effect from 1 January 2010 for most public servants and from 1 January 2012 for those specified in paragraph (e) of section 1. It treats any statutory or contractual provision fixing remuneration as amended to reduce pay in accordance with this section, applying Table 1 to specified offices and Tables 2 or 3 to other public servants. Allowances expressed as a percentage of basic salary are recalculated on reduced basic salary; reimbursements are unaffected. The section operates notwithstanding other enactments or agreements and permits Ministerial directions to avoid substantial inequity under subsection (7).
Table 1 prescribes percentage reductions for named offices (for example Taoiseach 20%, Tánaiste 15%, Ministers 15%, Ministers of State 10%, Ceann Comhairle 15%). Table 2 applies to annual basic salary over €125,000 (8% for >€125,000–€165,000; 12% for €165,000–€200,000; 15% for ≥€200,000). Table 3 applies to salaries ≤€125,000 (5% up to €30,000; 7.5% €30,000–€70,000; 10% €70,000–€125,000). Table 4 sets allowance reductions of 5% (≤€125,000) or 8% (>€125,000).
2. Reduction in public servants' remuneration.
(1) A relevant provision that fixes the remuneration, or any part of the remuneration, of a public servant, other than a public servant referred to in paragraph (e) or (f) of the definition of that term in section 1, shall be taken to have been amended, with effect on and from 1 January 2010, in accordance with this section.
(1A) A relevant provision that fixes the remuneration, or any part of the remuneration, of a public servant referred to in paragraph (e) of the definition of that term in section 1 shall be taken to have been amended, with effect on and from 1 January 2012, in accordance with this section.
(2) Where the remuneration of a public servant is fixed by a relevant provision, then, subject to subsections (3) and (4), the relevant provision shall be taken to have been amended so that the remuneration is -
(a) in the case of persons to whom Table 1 to this section relates, reduced in accordance with that Table, and
(b) in any other case, subject to subsection (7), reduced in accordance with Table 2 or Table 3 (as the case requires) to this section.