Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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306. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of officials in her Department who are private secretaries; the role, salary scale and allowances of each; the Minister whom they are assigned to; the way in which they were chosen for the role, be it open competition or closed internal competition; and if she will also include the grade of each private secretary. [29874/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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There is one private secretary assigned to the Minister in my Department. The private secretary is at the grade of Higher Executive Officer and is paid on the salary scale for that grade. They are also paid the private secretary allowance, which amounts to €20,685 annually. Selection of the private secretary is by way of an internal process confined to staff of the Department.