Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 189: To ask the Minister for Finance the grades of all individuals who have voluntarily surrendered pay; the value of the pay surrender to the State in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46795/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The main groups that have made a surrender of salary are Members of the Government, Ministers of State, Secretaries General and holders of posts at an equivalent level in the Civil Service. Other groups that have made a surrender of salary include certain members of the Oireachtas and a number of individual senior public servants. As the gifts are personal and voluntary it would not be appropriate to disclose the grades of those individuals. In the last category mentioned above, citing the grade/position held would allow identification of the persons concerned in most instances.

The approximate values of the amounts surrendered are as follows: