Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 1900: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the breakdown by county of the amount each person was paid under the scheme of performance related awards for managers, assistant managers and directors of services annually from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2898/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Committee for Performance Awards in the Local Government Sector was established to deal with the assessment of performance awards for senior managers in local authorities. The Committee's mandate is to make an independent determination/scrutiny of awards in accordance with a scheme formulated by my Department with the approval of the Department of Finance and which is consistent with principles recommended by Report No. 38 of the Review Body on Remuneration in the Public Sector.

The Committee's reports for 2003, 2004 and 2005, which are available in the Oireachtas Library, include details of the distribution of awards as a percentage of pay, the range of monetary value of awards and the number of recipients. The Committee's 2005 report includes details of total awards and number of participants by local authority.

In accordance with advice provided by the Information Commissioner in relation to the corresponding civil service scheme, information naming officials and individual amounts paid to them is deemed a personal record and consequently is not made publicly available.