Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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328. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 6 May 2015, if delegated sanction has been approved to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26198/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I am pleased to confirm that, earlier this month my Department was granted delegated sanction for pay and staffing for 2015 by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The terms and conditions of the sanction require the Agriculture Group (the Department and its Agencies) to comply with binding multi-annual pay ceilings. My Department is in the process of putting procedures in place to give effect to the sanction across the Agriculture Group. Within the parameters of that over arching policy, the question of where posts are filled remains an operational matter for Teagasc management and its governing Authority.