Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 4 July 2012
27 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in a tabular form, the public sector posts, including in commercial State companies and Government advisers for whom he has approved a breach of pay cap. [32378/12]
View answerLast June, I introduced a general pay cap of €250,000 per annum for Chief Executive Officers of Commercial State Companies. At the time I acknowledged that the CEO of the ESB would be paid a higher amount given the importance of the role and I sanctioned €318,083 per annum for this post. Since then a candidate has been appointed who has accepted a salary of €295,000 per annum. This represents a reduction of 43% in the maximum of the scale that applied to the previous incumbent of the post.
The table sets out the position where advisers are being paid above the Principal Officer scale.
|
Department |
Minister/ Minister of State |
Name of Adviser |
Sanctioned Pay Rate |
Relevent Payscale |
|
Agriculture Fisheries and Food |
Minister Coveney |
Ross MacMathuna |
€110,000 |
Approved Rate |
|
Communications, Energy and Natural Resources |
Minister Rabbitte |
Simon Nugent |
€97,200 |
Approved Rate |
|
Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation |
Minister Bruton |
Ciaran Conlon |
€127,000 |
Approved Rate |
|
Public Expenditure and Reform |
Rónán O'Brien |
€114,000 |
Approved Rate |
|
|
Social Protection |
Minister Burton |
Ed Brophy |
€127,796 |
Ass Sec |
|
Transport, Tourism and Sport |
Minister Varadkar |
Brian Murphy |
€105,837 |
PO I |
