Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will detail and itemise the performance based bonuses or other bonuses paid to Secretaries General and Assistant Secretaries in her Department and Offices in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26813/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The scheme of performance-related awards in the civil service applies to Deputy and Assistant Secretaries and equivalent grades. It does not apply to Secretaries General. Details of awards to individual officers under the performance related scheme are not disclosed on the basis that they are confidential to the officer concerned. As shown in the Committee for Performance Awards Report for 2006, (page 10) awards totalling €100,000 were made in 2007 to 8 officers in my Department in respect of 2006. Details of the operation of the scheme are available in the report of the Committee for Performance Awards which can be accessed on the website of the Department of Finance at the following link:

http://www.finance.gov.ie/documents/publications/ reports/CPArep2006.pdf