Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 282: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff in his private office and constituency office in 2008 broken down by grade; the salary cost including overtime, expenses and allowances and so on in each office for 2008; the number of these staff personally appointed by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1530/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The staffing of my private and constituency office is set out below:

Salary and related allowance payments in my office amounted to €594,404 in 2008. Overtime for the same period is €51,101. The amount paid in expenses for foreign and domestic travel (including attendance by the Minister and officials at monthly ECOFIN meetings), official entertainment and miscellaneous for the same period was €60,040. This expenditure covers costs incurred on behalf of staff in the offices and by the two Ministers who have had charge of the Office during that period.

Four members of the staff of my constituency office have been appointed by me, of which two are serving civil servants on loan from other Government Departments. The financial reporting system currently in use in my Department does not differentiate between costs incurred in the Private and Constituency Offices.