Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 322: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of political appointees and non established civil servants appointed to his Department since June 2002; the nature of the post to which each such person is appointed; the annual cost in terms of salaries or expenses in respect of each such post for each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26987/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy cannot be provided within the timescale available. Officials of my Department are currently compiling the data. I will have the information forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is compiled.

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 323: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such staff who are permanent civil servants; the number who are political appointees; the annual cost of each such office in terms of salary, overtime and expenses in respect of each Minister of State allocated to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27002/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The breakdown of the staffing complement of those currently employed in the two offices of the Ministers of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is outlined in Table 1.

Each Minister of State also employs 2 Civilian Drivers. The drivers work alternate weeks on a week on/week off basis. The current salary for a Civilian Driver is €30,782.02 per annum. There are 5 permanent civil servants and 4 political appointees, which includes the 2 Civilian Drivers in each Minister of State's Office.

The salary costs, overtime and expenses for each of the Minister's Offices from 1st June 2005 to 1st June 2006 are set out in Table 2. It should be noted that the salary costs are inclusive of overtime payments and the Civilian Driver salaries. The expenses refer to travel and subsistence costs and mobile phone expenses.

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 324: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff broken down by grade employed within his private office and his constituency office; the number of such staff who are permanent civil servants; the number who are political appointees; the annual cost of each such office in terms of salary, overtime and expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27017/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The information in relation to staffing of my office is set out in the tables.

The staff in the table above are civil servants.

Additional staff include 1 Special Advisor, 1 Policy Advisor and 1 Press Advisor. The individuals concerned transferred with me from the Department of Health and Children on my appointment as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on September 29th 2004. My Special Advisor is a civil servant whilst my Policy Advisor and Press Advisor are non-civil servants.

The total annual cost of running the Private and Constituency Office from June 2005 to the end of May 2006 was €648,350.61 and €167,567.68 respectively.