Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 40: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salaries of each of the heads or Provosts of third level institutions here for this coming academic year and for each of the past nine years; the additional benefits that each person accrued including any relocation costs, rent allowance, refunds on stamp duty on any new house loan purchases, and mortgage loan guarantees underwritten by the institution. [9840/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Salaries for the heads of Irish third-level institutions in the current academic year and for each of the past nine years are supplied in the attached table.

The total includes basic salary, allowances and all other benefits in cash or in kind. The Higher Education Authority is currently conducting an exercise to determine definitively the amount of any additional unauthorised payments or benefits made to individual senior staff in each of the universities, including heads since 2005. The Comptroller and Auditor General will assist the Authority by testing the completeness and correctness of the information supplied by each university and the accuracy of any calculations of excess payment amounts produced. I will be informing the Public Accounts Committee of the outcome of this exercise as soon as it becomes available.

Note: With the exception of St. Angela's College, Sligo, the rates shown above relate to persons who make an employee contribution in respect of personal superannuation benefits.