Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 481: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the ten largest bonus payments made to staff in her Department and each of its agencies in the past 12 months. [30655/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The scheme of bonus payments or performance-related awards in the civil service applies to Deputy and Assistant Secretaries and equivalent grades. During 2007 awards totalling €93,000 were made to 8 officers, comprising officers in my Department and bodies under the aegis of my Department, covered by the scheme. The average award made to the 8 officers was €11,625. 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.

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

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 482: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of civil servants in her Department who have transferred to other Government Departments or left the Civil Service in each of the past five years in tabular readable form. [30670/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The information sought by the Deputy on staff who left my Department over the past five years is contained in the table. The Deputy should be aware that the figures on staff transferring out include, for 2003 and 2004, a number of officers from my Department who transferred to the State Examinations Commission and the National Council for Special Education, both of which were vested in 2003 following a Programme of Structural Reform in the Department of Education and Science. Officers transferring out to other departments under the programme of decentralisation are included in the figures for all years from 2004. The figures for the number of staff who left the department over the past 5 years include those who left on retirement.

Table shows the number of civil servants in the Department of Education and Science who have transferred to other Government Departments or left the Civil Service in each of the past five years 2003-2007.

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 483: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of allegations of victimisation for whistleblowing that have been reported to her Department by Departmental staff since 1 January 2007. [30685/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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No allegations of victimisation for whistleblowing have been reported to my Department by Departmental staff since 1 January 2007.