New civil servants earning €7,000 less than colleagues

At the annual conference of the Civil Public and Services Union, general secretary Eoin Ronayne said it will take new recruits six years to reach €11.50 per hour, which is estimated to be the “living wage”.
“Many of these new state employees are third-level qualified and when they realise it will take over 18 years to get to the mid-€30,000s they head off to better opportunities,” said Mr Ronayne.