Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 226: To ask 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]

Tom Parlon (Laois-Offaly, Progressive Democrats)
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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: