Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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333. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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. [2909/17]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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334. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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. [2925/17]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 333 and 334 together.

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table:

My Department has 18 Assistant Secretary Generals, 3 Deputy Secretary Generals, 1 Secretary-General III, 2 Second Secretaries, 1 Secretary-General II and 1 Secretary General (DFA) salary scale.

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.