Written answers

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Department of Social Protection

Ministerial Staff

Photo of Ray ButlerRay Butler (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular format the annual salary costs for private and constituency offices of Ministers in her Department in each of the years 2009 and 2010; the same figures for any Ministers of State in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39647/12]

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Details of the gross annual salary costs in respect of the Ministerial private and constituency offices for 2009 and 2010 are set out in the following table. The totals show the annualised salary costs of the staffing levels as they stood on 1 September in each of the years in question. There is no Minister of State attached to the Department at present nor was there during the years in question.

Salary Cost as at 01/09/2009
Constituency Office
247,866.47
Private Office
413,022.45
Total Cost
660,888.92
Salary Cost as at 01/09/2010
Constituency Office
235,069.06
Private Office
359,571.29
Total Cost
594,640.35

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