Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 84: To ask the Taoiseach the average annual salary of a lawyer in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; the salary scales in respect of legal staff, including the starting salary, the average annual salary of non-legal DPP staff, and the annual cost of running the DPP in each of the years 2002 to date in 2007. [13182/07]

Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 85: To ask the Taoiseach the average annual salary of a solicitor in the Office of the Chief Prosecution Solicitor; the salary scales in respect of solicitors, including the starting salary, the average annual salary of non-legal CPS staff, and the annual cost of running the CPS in each of the years 2002 to date in 2007. [13185/07]

Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 84 and 85 together.

The average annual salary of lawyers in the Office of the Director of Public is currently approximately €81,210. The current average salary of other staff is approximately €36,870. I propose to circulate with the official report tables which detail all salary scales of professionally qualified legal grades, i.e. solicitors and barristers, within the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. All points on the scales are shown, including the starting points.

The Deputy has asked for details in respect of the Office of the Chief Prosecution Solicitor. It would be more correct to refer to the Solicitors Division of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The Chief Prosecution Solicitor leads the Solicitors Division. I can inform the Deputy that the average annual salary of lawyers in the Solicitors Division of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is currently approximately €71,290. The current average salary of other staff in the Solicitors Division is approximately €35,910. The running costs of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the period sought were as follows:

The running costs of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions are calculated on a whole Office basis and are not apportioned across the three Divisions of the Office separately. I am therefore not in a position to give figures for the running costs for the Solicitors Division or either for the other two Divisions.