Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 91: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of staff in the section which has responsibility for interaction with the National Roads Authority and local authority capital investment scheme. [26747/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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There are 10 staff members in the Division which deals with the National Roads and the National Roads Authority. There are 12 staff in the Division which oversees the Non-National Roads investment programme.

Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 92: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will detail and itemise the performance based bonuses or other bonuses paid to Secretaries General and Assistant Secretaries in his Department and Offices in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26816/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The scheme for 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. However I can say that during 2007 awards totalling €64,000 were made to 5 officers in my Department in respect of 2006 (as shown in the Committee for Performance Awards report for 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 www.finance.gov.ie.