I propose to take Questions Nos. 1622, 1623, 1624 and 1652 together.
One official from my Department, the Secretary General, arranged on his substantive appointment to the post in April 2021 to waive a portion of his salary on a voluntary basis.
The Secretary General was appointed on an interim basis in January 2021 on his existing annual gross salary of €211,742. In April 2021, following an open Top Level Appointments Committee process, the Secretary General was appointed to the role in line with the terms and conditions approved for the post on an annual gross salary of €292,000. The revised Civil Service pay scales which became effective on October 1, 2021 increased that annual gross salary to €294,920.
Voluntary deductions from pay by any civil servant employed by the Department, including the voluntary waiving of a portion of salary in this way, are not a statutory or contractual requirement and as such the details are personal and private in respect of the individual concerned.