Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide detail in tabular form by his Department and any agency under his remit, any exemptions granted to the long-standing general principle of pay policy that the payment of additional remuneration to public servants for undertaking additional duties is not permitted; the additional remuneration involved in each case; the date of sanction for such additional remuneration; the rationale behind such sanction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55035/13]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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I can assure the Deputy that the staff of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade are remunerated solely on the basis of salary policy and scales approved by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. There are no State agencies under the aegis of my Department.