Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the gross annual salary costs for his private and constituency offices at present; the same figures for this time last year; and the same figures for any Ministers of State in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37534/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The full year salary cost in 2012 and similar figures for 2011 for my and the Ministers of States' private and constituency offices are set out in Tables 1 to 3 below. The 2011 salary costs are lower than the 2012 full year cost because fourteen Ministerial appointed staff were appointed after the formation of the Government in March 2011, with some not being in situ until May 2011. Therefore the figures for 2011 are not full year figures and are therefore not comparable with the 2012 figures.

Both the private and constituency offices in my Department are staffed in line with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidelines.

TABLE 1 – Minister Varadkar Staffing

  TABLE 2 – Minister of State Ring Staffing

TABLE 3 – Minister of State Kelly Staffing