Enacted Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means 78/2020 Official bill number / year
Public Service Pay Bill 2020
- Sponsor
- Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
- Introduced
- 18 Dec 2020
- Last updated
- 9 Jul 2021
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Allows Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to approve public servant pay increases beyond statutory, court, or legal entitlement changes.
- Permits retrospective amendment of employment contracts to increase pay from bill enactment date, without requiring separate ministerial approval.
- Aligns repeal dates of pay restrictions across the 2009 and 2017 public service pay legislation to the bill's enactment date.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 33rd Dáil18 Dec 2020
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil10 Mar 2021
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil31 Mar 2021
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil26 May 2021
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil26 May 2021
- Second Stage 26th Seanad26 May 2021
- Committee Stage 26th Seanad14 Jun 2021
- Report Stage 26th Seanad28 Jun 2021
- Fifth Stage 26th Seanad28 Jun 2021
- Enacted5 Jul 2021
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