Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 139: To ask the Minister for Transport the payments made to senior officials in his Department under the performance related pay scheme for each of the years 2005 to 2008, if he has approved the payments for 2008; if so, the date of this approval; the date of the approval of payments relating to 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14225/09]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The scheme for performance-related awards in the Civil Service applies to Deputy and Assistant Secretaries and equivalent grades. 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.

However I can say that during 2006, awards totalling €46,800 (averaging €11,700) were made to 4 officers in my Department in respect of 2005; in 2007, awards totalling €64,000 (averaging €12,800) were made to 5 officers in my Department in respect of 2006 and in 2008, awards totalling €63,500 (averaging €12,700) were made to 5 officers in my Department in respect of 2007.

No approval has been given for payments for 2008. Regarding payments for 2007, approval was conveyed in a letter dated 18th March 2008 from the Department of Finance.

Details of the operation of the scheme, the numbers covered by the scheme and the total amounts paid in Departments, are available in the annual reports of the Committee for Performance Awards which can be accessed on the website of the Department of Finance www.finance.gov.ie.