Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 101: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will provide a list of all members of staff of his Department and offices stating the total amount paid to each person in 2009 including basic salary, allowances and overtime. [25191/10]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Information on salary, allowance and overtime payments to named individuals working for a named employer constitutes "personal data" for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts as the individuals concerned are or can be identified from the data.

Such data in respect of staff of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation is held for the purposes of paying appropriate levels of salary, and where applicable, allowance and overtime, to them. The Department, as a "data controller" for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts, is required to comply with those Acts. Section 2 of the Data Protection Act, 1988, as amended, requires data controllers to ensure appropriate security measures against, among other things, unauthorised disclosure of the data. Consequently, other than as required by law (i.e. to the Revenue Commissioners), the Department does not disclose salary etc. details of any individual member of staff unless explicitly authorised to do so by that member of staff.

However, I can advise the Deputy that in 2009 expenditure by my Department on salaries, allowances and overtime was as shown in the table below. These expenditure figures relate to the staff of the Department and its offices (1074.93 FTE at 1 January 2009) plus staff employed directly by the National Consumer Agency (NCA) who are not members of Department's staff but for whom the Department provides a payroll facility.