The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 is amended by the insertion of the following sections after section 6:

"6A. Adjustment to remuneration affected by operation of section 2

(1) The amount by which the basic salary of a public servant stands reduced by virtue of section 2, being the basic salary the annualised amount of which, as so reduced, does not exceed €24,000, €31,000 or €65,000, as the case may be, shall -

(a) in accordance with this section, and

(b) as regards payment of that salary occurring on or after the relevant date specified in this section,

be restored in part, or (if such is this section's effect) in whole, to the public servant.

(2) References in subsections (3), (4) and (5) to basic salary are references to basic salary as it stands reduced by virtue of section 2.

(3) The annualised amount of the basic salary of a public servant that is not greater than €24,000 shall, on and from 1 January 2016, be increased by 2.5 per cent.

(4) The annualised amount of the basic salary of a public servant that is greater than €24,000 but not greater than €31,000 shall, on and from 1 January 2016, be increased by 1 per cent.