The scheme for performance-related awards in the Civil Service applies to Deputy and Assistant Secretaries and equivalent grades. Details of awards to individual officers under the performance-related scheme are not disclosed on the basis that they are confidential to the officer concerned. However I can say that during 2006, awards totalling €46,800 (averaging €11,700) were made to 4 officers in my Department in respect of 2005; in 2007, awards totalling €64,000 (averaging €12,800) were made to 5 officers in my Department in respect of 2006 and in 2008, awards totalling €63,500 (averaging €12,700) were made to 5 officers in my Department in respect of 2007.
Details of the operation of the scheme, the numbers covered by the scheme and the total amounts paid in Departments, are available in the annual reports of the Committee for Performance Awards which can be accessed on the website of the Department of Finance www.finance.gov.ie.