Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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698. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of political staff employed in her Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers, drivers and other relevant positions; the number of civil or public service staff seconded to work within her Department or constituency offices; the salaries and job titles of each such person; the duty or role of each, in each of the years 2015 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36947/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Details are provided below regarding political staff paid from my Department’s Vote whose appointments are coterminous with my term of office as Minister or coterminous with the terms of office of the Ministers of State at my Department. Details are also provided of civil service staff working in my offices and Minister of State offices in the period concerned. Staffing numbers in my office and the Ministers of State offices are consistently maintained within the staffing limits set out in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Guidelines on Staffing of Ministerial Offices.The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht was established in June 2011, this was reconfigured in 2016 to become the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, and further reconfigured in July 2017 to become the Department of Culture Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

2015

Office of Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Civil Service Staff-Private Office

Civil Service Staff-Constituency Office

Office of Minister of State (Gaeltacht)

Civil Service Staff-Private Office

Civil Service Staff-Constituency Office

*With effect from the 32^ndDáil, Personal Secretaries and Personal Assistants are paid by the Houses of the Oireachtas as Secretarial Assistants and Parliamentary Assistants respectively, under the scheme for Secretarial Assistance.

2016

Office of Minster for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Civil Service Staff – Private Office

Civil Service Staff - Constituency Office

Office of Minister of State (Gaeltacht)

Civil Service Staff – Private Office

Office of Minister of State (Regional Economic Development)

Civil Service Staff – Private Office

2017

Office of Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Civil Service Staff-Private Office

Civil Service Staff - Constituency Office

Office of Minister of State (Gaeltacht)

Civil Service Staff- Private Office