Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 350: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money that will be contributed by civil and public servants to public funds by way of PRSI contributions for the year 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26365/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy for 2010 is not available. The amounts due in employee pay related social insurance is returned on annual employer forms P35 in respect of their employees to the Revenue Commissioners. The Revenue Commissioners do not categorise the employer P35 returns by reference to public or private sector employees. Furthermore, it is not possible to identify and extract information on civil and public servants who entered into employment in the public sector after April 1995 and are paying PRSI at the ordinary rate of PRSI contribution.

With regard to civil and public servants with entry dates pre 1995 while their PRSI classes are recorded separately on P35 annual returns the information relating to 2010 will not become available until 2012. The last year for which such information is available showing PRSI contributions paid at PRSI Classes B, C or D is 2007. In that year the total amount of PRSI paid by 139,931 civil and public servants amounts to €175,808,118 on gross earnings of €6,675,760,631.