Peadar Tóibín
Question:29. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will list the salaries of each of the top ten highest paid civil servants in his Department. [30867/23]
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29. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will list the salaries of each of the top ten highest paid civil servants in his Department. [30867/23]
View answerStaff employed in the Department of the Taoiseach are aligned to existing Civil Service grades and paid on the appropriate pay scales which are published on Gov.ie.
The table provides the salaries of the top ten highest paid civil servants in the Department of the Taoiseach.
Grade: |
Gross Annual Salary: |
Secretary General |
€ 242,250 |
Assistant Secretary General |
€ 167,534 |
Assistant Secretary General |
€ 167,534 |
Assistant Secretary General |
€ 167,534 |
Assistant Secretary General |
€ 167,534 |
Assistant Secretary General |
€ 146,454 |
Principal Officer |
€ 125,135 |
Principal Officer |
€ 125,135 |
Principal Officer |
€ 122,568 |
Principal Officer |
€ 122,568 |
44. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Taoiseach the pay and any other benefits, including any loyalty payments/bonuses or other benefit-in-kind, of each chief executive of State/semi-State body or other public body under the aegis of his Department for each year since 2020, in tabular form. [33060/23]
View answerThe salary of the Chief Officer of the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO), the only body under the aegis of my Department, is provided below in tabular format from 2020 to date. No other benefits, including loyalty payments/bonuses or other benefits-in-kind, were paid during this period. Payment is aligned to Civil Service pay scale of Assistant Secretary and increases provided were aligned to the national pay adjustments under the Building Momentum agreements.
Year |
Gross Salary |
2020 |
€135,209 |
2021 |
€143,872 |
2022 |
€157,530 |
2023 (to date) |
€83,173 |
45. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of instances in which his Department used unlicensed software and/or lapsed licenced software in the past ten years to date; the associated expenditure on same to remedy the situation; and the software that was used. [33164/23]
View answerThe situation described has not arisen in the Department of the Taoiseach.