Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 6 May 1998

Vol. 490 No. 5

Written Answers. - Ministerial Staff.

Nora Owen

Question:

109 Mrs. Owen asked the Minister for Public Enterprise the advisers, programme managers or public relation officers attached to her office; whether those persons are civil servants or private sector employees; when they were employed for this work; the costs associated with these persons; and whether their work is full or part-time. [10703/98]

Minister for Public Enterprise (Mrs. O'Rourke)

I do not have either a special adviser or a programme manager attached to my office.

I appointed Richard Moore as a full time press adviser when I took office. He was also press adviser to the two previous Ministers. Details on him and other staff working in the press and information area are contained in my reply to Question No. 214 of the 21 April 1998.