60,000 public servants to get €3k rise in next Budget

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is set to finalise plans in the coming days to give almost €200m worth of pay rises to 60,000 teachers, nurses, gardaí, and other public sector workers in a bid to end recession-era pay rates.

Mr Donohoe is likely to sign off on the deal either today or tomorrow in a move that would be worth up to €3,000 per person hired since the salary cutbacks were imposed at the depth of the economic crash in 2011.