Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 March 2022
284. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively, employed by his Department; and the various pay scales for persons working in his Department. [12476/22]
View answerMy Department currently employs 2,806 people; 1,962 civil servants and 864 locally engaged staff recruited at our overseas missions.
The annual salary of the highest paid officers in my Department is the Secretary General pay scale at €205,199 per annum. The current salary of the second highest paid officer in my Department is €201,712 per annum.
Civil service staff are engaged on the pay scales as set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Overseas locally engaged staff salaries are set on country by country basis.
