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Departmental Staff Redeployment

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 25 October 2012

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Ceisteanna (274)

Mary Lou McDonald

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274. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff members of his Department that have been awarded internal promotions and or additional acting up or temporary allowances to perform more senior roles since 27 March 2009; the details of the grades involved; the pre-promotion temporary acting and post promotion temporaryacting pay scales; the total increase in salary payments to each staff member involved; the duration of assignments; the area to which each person was assigned; the business reasons supporting any such decision; the details of sanction received from the Department of Finance and or Public Expenditure and Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47171/12]

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Freagraí scríofa

Within the Department  from 2009 to date the combined impact of staff reductions and restructuring saw a fall of 35% in the senior management grades. This streamlined the organisational and management structure of the Department to the extent that the filling of four management posts by internal promotion were negotiated and sanctioned by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in 2010 and a further one post in 2011 to ensure the Department has the absolute minimum required to carry out its programme functions.

The details sought on the five internal promotions are set out in the table below.   The total annual increase in salaries from these promotions is in the region of €24,000. There were no additional acting up or temporary allowances paid in my Department since 27 March 2009.

  Table 1

Number

Promotion Position

Current Assignment

1

Principal Officer, May 2010

Policy and Governance Coordination

1

Principal Officer, May 2010

Human Resources

1

Principal Officer, May 2010

Airports policy

1

Principal Officer, October 2010

National Sustainable Transport Office

1

Manager, February 2011

Irish Coast Guard

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