Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will publish details of all allowances paid to staff in his Department; the business case made by his Department in respect of these allowances to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; the cost of each individual allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41409/12]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Allowances payable by my Department are common to more than one Department. These allowances were accordingly reviewed by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the context of the recent review of allowances and my Department was not required to prepare a Business Case in respect of the allowances. As part of the overall review, the Delegates allowance which was payable in my and in other Departments was discontinued.

The table below sets out the allowances that are currently being paid to qualifying staff in my Department.