Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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513. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff employed by Irish embassies overseas; the salary grades for such staff, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37707/22]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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There are currently 396 Irish civil servants from my Department assigned to roles across our network of missions overseas. A breakdown of those officers by grade is provided below. Irish civil servant salaries are based on the pay scales as issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In addition, there are currently 873 staff locally employed in Ireland’s network of missions overseas. Staff employed overseas are recruited subject to local labour law and the salary for each role is benchmarked using job descriptions on a mission by mission basis.

Other Departments have assigned a total of 85 officers to roles across Ireland's mission network. For example, 25 officials who remain on their parent department's payroll are serving in the Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union in Brussels. Salaries for these Irish Civil Servants are also based on the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform pay scales.

Pay scales for Irish civil servants are available from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-public-expenditure-and-reform/).