FOI Request Ref: FOI/012/2010

Requester: Ken Foxe Sunday Tribune Decision Date: 04 February 2010.

'All correspondence concerning alterations to pay cuts for senior civil servants.

Schedule of Records: Summary of Decision Making

Rec. Brief description and date File Ref No. of Decision: Basis of Reason for Decision Public Interest Record Edited/
No. of record pages Grant/Part Refusal: Considerations Identify
Grant/Refuse Section of Deletions
Act (for and against release)
1 Note to Minister from E150/06/09 3 Grant
B Duffy re attached
letter from the
Association of
Assistant Secretaries
and Higher Grades
(AASHG) relating to
the suspension of the
performance-related
awards scheme 11/5/09
2 Submission to Minister E150/06/09 6 Refuse 46 (1)(b) Mandatory Requirements of
from B Duffy including Act
legal advice received
from Attorney
Generals Office 20/5/
2009
3 Copy of letter issued E150/06/09 4 Grant
by the (AASHG) to the
Review Body on
Higher Remuneration

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 sent to C Connolly for
information 26/08/09
4 Letter from the E150/06/09 2 Grant
AASHG requesting
meeting with Minister
27/10/09
5 Note to Minister from E150/06/09 1 Grant
Secretary General
(PSMD) regarding
AASHG’s request for
meeting 28/10/09
6 Emails between D E150/06/09 1 Grant
Weldon, C Connolly
and B Duffy re meeting
with ASSHG 30/10/09
7 Series of emails ending E150/06/09 1 Grant
with Secretary General
(PSMD) to B Duffy
and C Ruane re
meeting with ASSHG
1/12/09
8 Note from E150/06 1 Refuse 19(1)(c) Mandatory Requirements of
Secretary General /09 Act
(PSMD) to
Minister re Review
Body
Recommendation
position 7/12/2009
9 Series of emails ending E150/06/09 2 Refuse 19(1)(c) Mandatory Requirements of
with Secretary General
(PSMD) to B Duffy re
Assistant Secretary

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 Performance Award. Act
7/12/09

10 Email from Sec E150/06/09 4 Refuse 19(1)(a) Mandatory Requirements of

General (PSMD) to B and (c) Act
Duffy and O Buckley
seeking views on
attached Aide Memoire
8/12/09
11 Email from B Duffy to E150/06/09 1 Refuse 19(1)(a) Mandatory Requirements of
C Connolly and O and (c) Act
Buckley re Draft Aide
Memoire 8/12/09
12 Government Decision E150/06/09 1 Refuse 19(1)(b) Mandatory Requirements of
approving text of 19(2) Act
Financial Emergency
Measures in the Public
Interest (No. 2) Bill,
2009. 9/12/09
13 Emails between Sec E150/06/09 2 Grant
General (PSMD) and B
Duffy re Deputy
Secretary salary level
17/12/09
14 Note from Secretary E150/06/09 3 Partial 19(2)(a) Mandatory Requirements of
General (PSMD) to Grant 19(2)(b) Act
Minister re
Government Decision
of 9 December 2009
22/12/09

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15 Series of emails ending E150/06/09 4 Partial 28(1) Personal information relating
with L Kelly to A Grant to the employment history of
Gibbons re the an individual.
calculation of the
reduced Assistant
Secretaries rates of pay
23/12/09
16 Series of emails ending E150/06/09 2 Grant
with O Buckley to A
Mahon re numbers
affected at Assistant
Secretary level
4/01/2010
17 Email from P Lemass E150/06/09 2 Grant
to B Duffy and O
Buckley re Local
Government Managers
Pay 4/1/10
18 Series of emails ending E150/06/09 Grant
with O Buckley to A
Mahon re Review
Body report and top
civil servants’ bonuses
5/1/10
19 Note to Minister from E150/06/09 2 Grant
O Buckley re Section 6
of Act 5/01/2010

20 Email from S Ryan to E150/06/09 3 Grant

P Brazel re pay scales
for HSE review body

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 grades
21 Email from B Carey to E150/06/09 5 Partial 28(1) Personal information relating
B Duffy and P Brazel Grant to the employment history of
re senior grades in Appendix an individual.
Health Sector refused
NCSSB’s and
Voluntary Hospitals

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