Public Sector Allowances Payments

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 25 October 2012

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Questions (127)

Dara Calleary

Question:

127. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide details of all the Gaeltacht allowance payable to civil and public servants; the level of each allowance payable to each category and the monetary level of each allowance together with the total amount payable in 2009, 2010 and 2011. [47470/12]

Written answers

Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

The Deputy will be aware that my Department was established on 2 June 2011. I am advised that no civil or public servants in my Department or, in any of the bodies funded from my Department's Vote Group, are in receipt of a specific Gaeltacht allowance since that date.