Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Question 659: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost of all staff, permanent and non-established, allocated to assist him with constituency work in the 100 days following his appointment. [27352/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The salary cost of the staff allocated to me to assist with constituency work in the 100 days following my appointment is €57,570.

Following the decision of the Government on 15 March 2011, the maximum number of staff in my and other Minister of Government's constituency office is four. It should be noted that this marks a considerable reduction from the levels of staffing permitted under the previous government where there were a maximum of six staff in each Minister of Government's office.