Iarnród Éireann 2025 Gender Pay Gap report

28 November 2025

Welcome to the fourth annual Iarnród Éireann Gender Pay Gap Report.

Iarnród Éireann is committed to the principle of equal pay for equal work. We want to ensure that our report, which is required under legislation, reflects the state of play when it comes to gender pay parity, and offers transparency in our efforts to ensure there is no gender pay gap.

Iarnród Éireann is also working to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation, having a target to increase the number of women employed in our workforce.

To recap our goals:
• We aspire to double the number of women we employ by 2030
• We want to achieve 50% participation in employee-led Employee Resource Groups
• We will support women in their journey to achieve leadership positions

Our Gender Pay Gap report has been in favour of women for each of our four years of reporting. We acknowledge
that a marker of our success will be the narrowing of this gap, as we seek to employ more women in previously
male dominated, operational fields.

As we make positive progress towards gender parity in pay, it remains more important than ever that we accelerate
our efforts regarding hiring, retaining, empowering and inspiring women across Iarnród Éireann.

The numbers paint a positive picture regarding women being hired into the business – as we see more women
entering frontline, clerical and executive grades, we anticipate we’ll continue to move towards equality in gender
pay over the coming years.

While the gap has reduced further to 5.79%, our rate of hiring women has fallen below our headline goal to
double the number of women employed at Iarnród Éireann by 2030. Currently standing at 616, women currently make up 12.5% of the business – while this is positive progress, it is slow progress, and still remains below thev European average.

Nonetheless, as we expand and as we replace retiring or departing colleagues, it remains an achievable goal, with women in Ireland making up 41.9% of the total workforce.

We must also not lose sight of our ambition to ensure a positive experience for women who are hired into the
business, creating opportunities for both new entrants and those with long service, encouraging women towards promotion, being an employer of choice, and continue our zero tolerance approach to bullying, harassment and sexual harassment in all fields.

 

Our approach to welcoming women into Iarnród Éireann has resulted in two awards this year – Advancing Gender
Equality at the National Diversity & Inclusion Awards, and Next Generation in Rail at the EU Women in Rail awards.

However the challenge continues, and we encourage all colleagues to robustly engage with our recruitment, talent
and equality, diversity and inclusion departments to find out more about playing their part in making our railway
more welcoming for all.

Mary Considine
Chief Executive

Full Gender Pay Gap 2025 report