Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 17: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the payments made to senior officials in her Department under the performance related pay scheme for each of the years 2005 to 2008, if she 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 she will make a statement on the matter. [14218/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The scheme of performance-related awards in the civil service applies to Deputy and Assistant Secretaries and equivalent grades. The pool for performance awards is 10% of the pay bill for the group concerned. Details of awards made to individual officers under the performance-related scheme are not disclosed on the basis that they are confidential to the officer concerned.

Details of the operation of the scheme are available in the report of the Committee for Performance Awards which can be accessed on the website of the Department of Finance www.finance.gov.ie.

The table outlines the total cost of payments made to senior officials and other office holders in my Department under the scheme for performance-related awards for each of the years 2005 to 2008.

Payments relating to 2007 were approved by the Committee for Performance Awards in May 2008. No awards have been approved for officers of my Department under the scheme in respect of 2008. The Deputy will be aware that my colleague the Minister for Finance recently announced the discontinuation of the scheme for performance-related awards. I am currently awaiting clarification from the Minister on the matter.