Michael Noonan
Question:108 Mr. Noonan (Limerick East) asked the Minister for Finance if, having regard to Report No. 30 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector, he will give details of the number of assistant secretaries serving in Government Departments on 1st Janaury, 1990, to whom the pay range recommended by the Review Body could have been applied; the number of those officers who opted not to have the pay range applied to them; the number of those officers who opted to have the pay range applied who, on 1st January, 1990, had not less than one year's service on the maximum of the assistant secretary scale during 1990; and the number who had actually completed one year's service on the maximum of that scale during 1990; the number of these officers who were rated by the heads of their Departments as outstanding, more than satisfactory, satisfactory and less than satisfactory; the number of assistant secretaries who retired before 1st January, 1990, and who, from that date, had their pensions calculated by reference to a point on the pay range, distinguishing between those who had their pensions calculated by reference to the maximum of the pay range and those who had their pensions calculated by reference to other points on the pay range; the estimated additional cost to the Exchequer in each of the years from 1990 to 1993 of increasing, by reference to the maximum of the pay range, the pensions of all assistant secretaries, other than those at the maximum of the pay range, who retired before 1st January, 1990 on the maximum of the assistant secretary scale; and the number of retired officers concerned.
