Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 176: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants who have worked in the constituency offices of Ministers and Ministers of State since 1997 to date in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19417/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Guidelines issued by the Department of Finance specify that the number of staff in a Minister's and a Minister of State's Constituency Office may not exceed 6 and 5 respectively. During the period 1997 to date the number of staff in the Constituency Office of the Minister for Finance and of the Minister of State assigned to the Department of Finance have never exceeded those numbers.