Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 98: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment 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. [26809/07]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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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. However I can say that during 2007 awards totalling €168,000 were made to 14 officers in my Department and associated Offices in respect of 2006 (as shown on page 10 of the CPA 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 at the following link:

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

Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 99: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism 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. [26804/07]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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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 are not disclosed, or where there are less than 5 officers covered by the scheme in a Department which would allow them to be identified, which is the case in my Department, on the basis that the awards are confidential to the officer concerned. 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 www.finance.gov.ie/documents/publications/ reports/CPArep2006.pdf