Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 297: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government 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. [14219/09]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Civil service posts at the levels of Assistant Secretary and Deputy Secretary are covered by a scheme of performance related awards. It does not apply to Secretaries General.

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 for Performance Awards (available on the website www.finance.gov.ie). The Committee does not identify the amount paid to individuals as this is regarded as personal information.

Details regarding the number of staff who received performance related awards and the total amount paid in the period 2005- 2007 is set out in the following table:

No specific funding has been set aside in 2009 in respect of performance in 2008.