Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the percentage of staff working in the public sector, including in the civil services, that he deems to fall into the category of frontline staff, administrative, management, elected representative and any other relevant categories; and the way the pay budget is allocated across these categories in percentage and real terms in terms of as a proportion of the Department expenditure on salaries. [28790/12]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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My Department's salaries budget is not allocated on the basis outlined in the question and the type of information sought is therefore not currently available. However, in order to be helpful to the Deputy, I am providing below a table containing a full breakdown of the core staffing of the Department at home and abroad on 30th April 2012. Just less than 590, or approximately 42% of posts are based abroad and a majority of those would be regarded as frontline staff. At Headquarters, some 40% of the 810 posts are filled by staff involved in the provision of passport and consular services and would also fall into that category, as would smaller numbers of staff in some other areas of the Department. Overall, about 36% of the Department's staff are graded at Higher Executive Officer or equivalent level, or above, and would be regarded as management staff.

Two members of the Dáil are office holders in the Department; myself as Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Mr Joe Costello TD, Minister of State for Trade and Development. The ministerial salary of the Minister for European Affairs, Ms Lucinda Creighton TD, is paid by the Department of the Taoiseach.