Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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571. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of Secretaries General in his Department; the annual pay of each Secretary General within his Department at 1 Jan 2017; the expected change in that pay as a consequence of the provisions of the Lansdowne Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2904/17]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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572. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of assistant secretaries general in his Department; the annual pay of each assistant secretary general within his Department at 1 January 2017; the expected change in that pay as a consequence of the provisions of the Lansdowne Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2920/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 571 and 572 together.

The current gross salary of the secretary general of my Department is €176,350 per annum.

There are currently four assistant secretaries employed in my Department (there is currently one vacancy at this level).  Two are earning a gross annual salary of €119,572 each, one earns €125,761 and the remaining assistant secretary earns €136,496.

Under the provisions of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015 (FEMPI Act 2015), for those on salaries in excess of €110,000 the salary reductions imposed under the FEMPI Act 2013 will be restored in three equal phases on 1 April 2017, 1 April 2018 and 1 April 2019.  A circular setting out the revised salary rates applicable from 1 April 2017 to general Civil Service grades, including Secretaries General and Assistant Secretaries General, is currently in preparation and will be issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in due course.