Departmental Staff.

Wednesday, 1 December 2004

Questions (99)

Paul McGrath

Question:

123 Mr. P. McGrath asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of civil servants and other staff employed on constituency and public relations work for each of her Ministers of State; the grade and remuneration of each of these members of staff; and if she will compare these employees to those employed by the corresponding Minister of State at November 2001. [31689/04]

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Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children (Ms Harney)

Set out below are tables for constituency offices of Ministers of State broken down by numbers of staff — civil servants and non-civil servants — and amount paid in respect of salary.

Minister of State (Mr. Brian Lenihan) — Constituency Office at November 2004.

Number of Staff	Grade	Annual Salary
		€
3	CO	83,099.27
2	Personal Secretary and Assistant (non-civil servants)	87,318.62
Total 5		170,417.89

Minister of State (Mr. Tim O'Malley) — Constituency Office at November 2004.

Number of Staff	Grade	Annual Salary
		€
1	EO	36,312.71
1	SO	27,103.65
1	CO	25,399.41
2	Personal Secretary and Assistant (non-civil servant)	92,826.22
Total 5		181.641.99

Minister of State (Mr. Seán Power) — Constituency Office at November 2004.

Number of Staff	Grade	Annual Salary
		€
1	EO	41.305.89
2	CO	56,659.91
1	Personal Secretary (non-civil servant)	42,587.86
Total 4		140,553.66

Minister of State (Ms Mary Hanafin) — Constituency Office at November 2001.

Number of Staff	Grade	Annual Salary
		€
2	CO	46,570.09
1	EO	31,627.37
1	Personal Assistant (non-civil servant)	37,567.79
Total 4		115,765.25

Minister of State (Dr. Tom Moffatt) — Constituency Office at November 2001.

*Number of Staff	Grade	Annual Salary
		€
2	EO	61,877.14
6	CO (4 WTE)	102,131.93
3	Personal Assistant (1 WTE) (non-civil servant) and Secretary	66,580.06
Total 11		230,589.13

*Please note that the private office and constituency office work was covered by all staff as one team.