Written answers

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Public Sector Pay

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons at secretary general level in the civil service who are receiving payments in each of the four categories or bands of the secretary general grade in tabular form. [46113/21]

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I refer the Deputy to the document attached at TAB A which details the 19 Secretary General posts and level, listed by Government Department.

Other senior posts in the Civil Service with pay rates at these levels are included at TAB B.

TAB A - Secretary General Posts

Level Post Number of Posts
I Secretary General, Finance
Secretary General, Taoiseach / Secretary General to the Government
Secretary General, Public Expenditure and Reform 3
II Secretary General, Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Secretary General, Enterprise, Trade & Employment
Secretary General, Justice
Secretary General, Health*
Secretary General, Foreign Affairs
Secretary General, Environment, Climate and Communications
Secretary General, Social Protection
Secretary General, Education
Secretary General, Housing, Local Government & Heritage
Secretary General, Transport
Secretary General, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 11
III Secretary General, Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Secretary General, Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Secretary General, Defence
Secretary General to the President
Secretary General, Rural and Community Development 5
*A salary of €292,000 was sanctioned in 2021 for recruitment to the post in the Department of Health. The successful candidate indicated on his appointment in April 2021 that he was waiving the salary increase for the time being

TAB B - Other posts at these pay levels

Level Post Number of Posts
II Chairman, Revenue Commissioners
Comptroller & Auditor General
Director of Public Prosecutions 3
III Chairman, OPW
Chief State Solicitor
Clerk of the Dáil
Commissioner, Revenue (x2)
Director General, CSO
Director General, Office of the Attorney General
Chief Parliamentary Counsel
Second Secretary / Ambassador, Foreign Affairs (x3)
Second Secretary, Taoiseach
CEO, Courts Service 13

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