Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 377: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number and grade of staff who qualified for performance related pay prior to that payment being abolished in her Department; and the pay scales appropriate to those grades. [10588/10]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Civil service posts at the levels of Assistant Secretary and Deputy Secretary were covered by a scheme of performance related awards. At the point when the scheme was abolished there were 5 Assistant Secretaries and 1 Deputy Secretary serving in this Department.

The pay scales appropriate to the Deputy Secretary and Assistant Secretary grades, effective from 1 January 2010, are as follows:

Deputy Secretary E168,000 (non personal pension contribution scale) E176,800 (personal pension contribution scale)

Assistant Secretary

E127,796 E133,605 E139,898 E146,191 (non personal pension contribution scale)

E134,523 E140,636 E147,262 E153,885 (personal pension contribution scale)