Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 198: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons employed in her private office and her constituency office; the annual amount paid in respect of salaries and expenses in regard to each office in tabular form; the number of persons employed in the private and constituency offices of the Ministers of State in her Department; the annual amount paid in respect of salaries and expenses in regard to each office in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46383/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The details the Deputy has requested in respect of the staffing of my private and constituency offices are shown in the tabular statement. There has been no Minister of State formally assigned to my Department. However, Minister of State, Áine Brady, who is Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, has special responsibility for older people, areas of which fall under the remit of my Department. There are no staff assigned to her office from my Department.