Ministerial Staff.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 December 2005

Tuesday, 13 December 2005

Questions (194)

Eamon Gilmore

Question:

226 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Finance in respect of each Minister of State within his Department, the number of staff broken down by grade employed within their private and constituency office; the number of staff who are permanent civil servants; the number who are political appointees; the annual cost of each office in terms of salary, overtime and expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39021/05]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of Finance (Mr. Parlon)

One personal assistant and one personal secretary are employed on constituency work by me. There are two executive level officers in my private office. One of the officers is an executive officer and the other is performing as an executive officer but is from OPW's technical stream, which is approximately an EO equivalent level. The executive officer is my private secretary and is in receipt of the allowance for that role. There is one staff officer serving in my private office who assists with constituency work. Two clerical officers are assigned to my private office. Two of the above staff were appointed in accordance with my recommendation and five are serving civil servants.

The annual-weekly salary details are as follows:

Staff	Pay Scale *	Salary (min)	Salary (max)
Personal Assistant	HEO standard Scale (pa)	43,316	54,986
Personal Secretary	Secretarial Assistants (pw)	386.87	746.41
Executive Officer A	EO Standard ScalePrivate Secretary Allowance	28,44118,962	46,905
Executive Officer B	Insp of Textile Scale	36,677	47,255
Staff Officer	Staff Officer (pa)	30,884	41,237
Clerical Officer A	CO Standard Scale	21,563	34,964
Clerical Officer B	CO Standard Scale	21,563	34,964

* Pay Scales as at 05/12/2005.

In addition to the above a pension contribution of 11% of basic salary is payable to an approved pension provider as part of the remuneration of the personal assistant. The travel and subsistence expenses paid to date in 2005 amount to €22,336 rounded to the nearest euro. Based on the above salaries and travel and subsistence expenses, the cost in 2005 of running my office is circa €294,791. The costs associated with the private office are circa €196,465 and those of the constituency are circa €98,326. The cost per annum of the staff officer as per the above information has been assigned to my constituency office.

Question No. 227 answered with QuestionNo. 65.