Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 368: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in respect of each Minister of State within his Department the number of staff broken down by grade employed within their private office and their constituency office; the number of 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. [42726/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The breakdown of staff by grade currently employed in the two Ministers of State Offices 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 €31,551.68 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 December 2005 to 1st December 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 costs.

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 369: 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 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. [42741/06]

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 Adviser, 1 Policy Adviser and 1 Press Adviser (Salary & expenses in relation to these staff are included in the overall Private Office figure). My Special Adviser is a civil servant whilst my Policy Adviser and Press Adviser are non-civil servants. The total annual cost of running the Private and Constituency Office from 1st December 2005 to the 1st December 2006 was €599,095.36 and €165,180.91 respectively.