Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salary of four roles within her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38293/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tables.

Department of Education

*Salaries are with effect from 01/02/2022

**Salary/salary scales are with effect from 01/07/2022

Notes

Please note that the annual salaries for the Minister and Minister of State include both the T.D. annual salaries, paid by the Oireachtas, along with the additional salaried allowances which apply to Ministers and Ministers of State which are paid by the Department.

PPC - Personal Pension Contribution pay scale. Denotes salary scales applying to staff appointed after 6th April 1995 who are required to make a personal pension contribution.

Non PPC - Denotes salary scales applying to staff appointed before 6th April 1995 and who are not required to make a personal pension contribution.

Please note that details of the pay of members of the Oireachtas, including Ministers and Ministers of State, are available at www.gov.ie/en/publication/a8bc7-pay-of-oireachtas-members-and-office-holders/and Circular 15/2022, which sets out the current salary scales for certain civil service grades including Secretary General and Assistant Secretary General, is available at www.gov.ie/en/circular/f45ad-circular-15-2022-fempi-pay-restoration-1-july-2022/

Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department are taking to increase recruitment of members of the LGBTQIA+ communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38405/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Recruitment of staff to my Department is generally through the Public Appointments Service (PAS), which is the centralised provider of recruitment, assessment and selection services across the Civil Service. All recruitment activities by the PAS are in line with the Commission for Public Service Appointment's (CPSA) Code of Practice for Appointment to Positions in the Civil Service and Public Service ensuring equity, fairness, equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion for all applicants. Their recruitment activities are also underpinned by their Equality, Inclusion and Diversity strategy 2021-2023 available at www.publicjobs.ie/documents/PASEDIStrategyDocument.pdfwhich identifies the key strategic priorities of greater knowledge and understanding of diversity in the recruitment market and the Irish public sector and also recruitment and selection processes that encourage and enable access to candidates from diverse backgrounds. In the case of internal promotion competitions in my Department, all processes are in line with the CPSA code of practice and internal interview board members are required to participate in unconscious bias training to eliminate stereotyping and encourage diversity.

My Department actively supports Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the workplace through a number of initiatives for staff to promote the EDI conversation in the Department.

The requested information in respect of the Department’s aegis bodies is not held by my Department. Contact details for these bodies are set out in the following document should the Deputy wish to contact them directly with this query.

Contact E-Mail Addresses for State Bodies under the Remit of the Department of Education as at 29^thMarch 2022

Note 1 - The spelling of the NCCA e-mail address to which Oireachtas queries may be addressed has been verified with the NCCA as being accurate.