Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 936: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the total payroll and the total financial package including basic salary, performance, other bonuses and pension entitlements of the chief executive officer of every public agency or quango under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30616/08]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 988: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the bonuses, merit awards and other payments above the basic salary they have approved for the heads of State agencies, boards and other quangos for 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; the basis on which they made the decision to approve such awards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31197/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 936 and 988 together.

The following table sets out the salary of the current post holders in the role of Chief Executive Officer in each of the agencies under the aegis of my Department.

In addition to these posts, there are also a number of other full-time Heads of Office in the Justice and Equality Sector (that are generally graded at Deputy Secretary, Assistant Secretary or Principal Officer level) responsible for the Irish Prison Service, the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS), the Equality Tribunal, the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner, the Garda Síochána Inspectorate, the Irish Film Classification Office, the State Pathology Service, etc.

The Chairperson of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission is a member of the judiciary pension scheme while all other post holders, with the exception of the President of the Human Rights Commission, are members of the relevant civil service pension scheme for established or non-established staff. The President of the Human Rights Commission has no pension entitlements in relation to this position.

Those post holders marked with an asterisk in the table above and a number of Heads of Office in the Justice and Equality Sector are covered by the Civil Service-wide scheme of performance-related awards. The operation of the scheme is overseen by the Committee for Performance Awards which is chaired by the Department of Finance. Payments of up to 20% of salary can be made to individuals under the Scheme. Details of the procedures, the numbers covered by the scheme, the range of awards and the total amounts paid in Departments are outlined in the annual reports of the Committee (available on the website www.finance.gov.ie).

Details of individual awards made under the performance-related scheme are not disclosed on the basis that they are confidential to the officers concerned. A breakdown of the range of awards made to the relevant CEOs/Heads of Office in respect of each of the years 2005 to 2007 is set out in the table below. No awards under the Scheme have yet been made in respect of 2008.