Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 586: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amounts and names of those local authority senior staff who received bonus payments in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14004/07]

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 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.