With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, it is proposed to take Questions Nos. 1 and 2 together.
The former head of the Government Information Services was appointed in 1973 to the post of assistant secretary. He resigned from that post in September, 1975, to take up an appointment in Radio Telefís Éireann. His commencing salary was £5,092 and his retiring salary was £8,195.
The present head, with whom a three-year contract for a fee of £11,000 per year was agreed, is not a civil servant. The question of a civil service grading does not, therefore, arise.