Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of recruiting five additional full-time higher category specialists at the grade of higher executive officer for the Office of Government Procurement. [36393/20]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Category Specialist Higher is a general service grade, equivalent to Higher Executive Officer, and unique to the Office of Government Procurement.  The current salary scale for civil servants at this grade as of 01 October 2020 is as per the table below.

The annualised first year salary cost of five full-time new entrants to this grade is €231,305 (€46,261 x 5).