Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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244. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than €500,000, between €400,000-€500,00, €300,000 - €250,000, €250,000 - €200,000, €200,000 - €150,000, €150,000 - €100,000, €100,000 - €80,000, €80,000 - €60,000, €60,000 - €40,000 and less than €30,000. [18869/13]

Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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245. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of politicians under the remit of his Department who earn more than €500,000, between €400,000 and €500,00, €300,000 to €250,000, €250,000 to €200,000, €200,000 to €150,000, €150,000 to €100,000, €100,000 to €80,000, €80,000 to €60,000, €60,000 to €40,000 and less than €30,000. [18878/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 244 and 245 together. The following table sets out the salary bands in respect of my Department.

The Revenue Commissioners have provided me with the following information in relation to the earnings of Revenue staff serving on 31/12/2012. The figures are net of any voluntary surrender of salary under Section 483 of the Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997.

The table for the Appeals Commissioners is as follows:

Details for the Disabled Drivers Scheme are as follows:

1 WTE earns between €150,000 - €200,000

1 WTE earns between €40,000 - € 60,000

Details for the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council are as follows:

Number of persons between €100,000 – €80,000: 1 person

Number of persons between €60,000 – €40,000: 2 people

National Treasury Management Agency

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) provides asset and liability management services to Government. Businesses managed by the NTMA include borrowing for the Exchequer and management of the National Debt, the State Claims Agency, the New Economy and Recovery Authority, the National Pensions Reserve Fund and the National Development Finance Agency. It assigns staff to the National Asset Management Agency and also provides it with business and support services and systems. All NAMA staff are employees of the NTMA.

The NTMA business model is specifically designed to carry out commercial and market-facing functions while being funded from the Exchequer (except in the case of NAMA which reimburses the NTMA from income generated). Under the NTMA business model, its remuneration structure is such that there are no general pay grades and no pay scales and all staff are on individually-negotiated contracts.

The NTMA publishes information on salaries by salary band in its Annual Report. The 2012 Annual Report is scheduled for publication in July 2013. Salary band information was updated by the NTMA in information provided to the Dail Public Accounts Committee last December. That information is set out as follows:

NTMA Salaries by Salary Band 31 October 2012

Notes: The public service pension deduction is applied to NTMA employees.

All fifteen NTMA employees whose salaries exceeded €200,000 agreed to the Minister for Finance’s request of December 2011 that they waive 15% of salary or such amount of salary as exceeds €200,000 if application of the full 15% reduction would bring their salary to below €200,000. These reductions are reflected in the above table.