Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of the annual salary currently being paid to the interim chief executive officer of the National Educational Welfare Board; if the interim CEO retired from his previous position as Assistant Chief Inspector of the Department of Education and Skills; and if so is he in receipt of his public service pension. [50432/12]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I have been advised that the National Educational Welfare Board has recently appointed an Interim Chief Executive Officer on a fixed term contract. The Interim Chief Executive Officer had retired from his position as an Assistant Chief Inspector in the Department of Education and Skills prior to his consideration for appointment by the Board.

The pension abatement rules with regard to the re-employment within the public sector of retired public servants apply to this appointment. Under the terms of the sanction received from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform the salary scale for the Interim Chief Executive Officer post is €97,935 - €117,407. Government policy requires that the first point of the scale is applicable in the case of new entrants.