Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 25 Mar 1997

Vol. 476 No. 7

Written Answers. - Ministerial Staff.

Ivor Callely

Question:

408 Mr. Callely asked the Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications the persons appointed by him or by the Ministers of State at his Department as programme managers, advisers, assistants or back-up staff, either in his Department or in constituency offices; the annual remuneration paid to these staff; the names of individuals, groups or companies which have undertaken or have been approved to undertake full-time, part-time or casual consultancies, reviews, examinations, analyses or any public relations service on his behalf or on behalf of the Ministers of State at his Department; and the full costs in respect of these to his Department. [8014/97]

Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications (Mr. Dukes)

The information in relation to staffing in my office and the office of the Minister of State is contained in Schedule A.

With regard to consultancies, I would refer the Deputy to my replies of 19 December 1996 to Question No. 252 and 5 March 1997 to Questions Nos. 256 and 257. Additional information is given in the following Schedule B and represents the current update of the position.

Schedule A

Staff Appointed by the Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications.

Name	Position	Annual Salary
		£
Angela Edgehill	Programme Manager	39,043
Richard Moore	Press Advisor	40,789(including pension allowance)
Mark Kennelly	Special Advisor	35,370(including pension allowance)
Bernie Grogan	Personal Secretary	29,117

Staff Appointed by the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Energy and Communications.

Name	Position	Annual Salary
		£
Dave Moynan	Personal Advisor	24,328
Christina Saults	Personal Assistant	10,386
Gillian Stagg	Personal Secretary	10,162

Schedule B

Department of Transport, Energy and Communications (D/TEC).

Consultancy contracts update for PQ Reply 25 March 1997.

Title of Contract	Consultants	Actual/Estimated Cost Inclusive of VAT
		£
1. Financial accounting advice for Geological Survey of Ireland	To be determined	4,920 est
2. Geological mapping services	Marcus Pracht	3,900 est
3. Training Course for staff on structural geology	To be determined	1,500 est
4. Consultation in Quarternary Geological Studies	Gail Ashley	1,500
5. Advice/Assistance with Groundwater projects	Bruce Misstear	1,200
	Paul Johnson	720
6. Gold Map of UK and Ireland	Vincent Gallagher	1,980
7. Services in production of geotourism publications	P. McKeever	5,400
Geotourism Products Wicklow
8. Services in relation to geological heritage sites	To be determined	9,000 est
9. Joint Study with Department of Environment on policies and measures to limit or reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions	Consortium led by Environmental Resources Management, Oxford	119,730(1)
10. Mineral Ownership Research in relation to State mining lease/licence applications	Michael O'Mahony	4,500 est
11. Providing potential engineering advice on offshore hydrocarbon development and production	Peter McCormick	26,000
12. Well Engineering	Forbairt	6,000
13. Geophysical and geological advice relating to petroleum systems in certain areas	James Rice, David Young and Clare Morgan	To be determined
14. Examination of an environmental appraisal by BGE of a proposed natural gas transmission pipeline	Forbairt	1,452

(1) Half of the costs to be borne by D/TEC, half by Department of the Environment.