Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 301: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number and grade of staff who qualified for performance-related pay prior to that payment being abolished in his Department; and the pay scales appropriate to those grades. [10587/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I assume that the Deputy's question relates to the Performance-related Awards Scheme which, prior to its abolition in 2009, applied to staff at Assistant Secretary, Deputy Secretary and equivalent grades in the Civil and Public Service.

The position in relation to my Department is that a total of 11 staff received awards under the Scheme in its last year of operation. The current salary scales for Assistant Secretary and Deputy Secretary, the grades to which the Scheme mainly applied, are set out in Department of Finance Circular 28/2009 which is available on that Department's website at www.finance.gov.ie.