I propose to take Questions Nos. 1462, 1467 and 1490 together.
As requested by the Deputy, details of the names and salaries for Special Advisers in my Department are set out in tabular form below. In accordance with Department of Finance instructions on Ministerial appointments, my Advisers were placed on the first point of the Principal Officer standard scale on appointment. The Principal Officer scale provides for annual increments and as all my Advisers are in their second year of tenure, all have moved to the second point of the scale. There have been no additional salary increases asked for or granted since their appointment.
Name
|
WTE
(Wholetime
Equivalent)
|
Salary on
appointment
|
Current
Salary
|
Marion Mannion
|
1
|
€80,051
|
€83,337
|
Jennifer Carroll
MacNeill
|
0.5
|
€40,025
|
€41,669
|
William Lavelle
|
0.5
|
€40,025
|
€41,669
|
Section 5.4 of the Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour excludes staff holding a temporary unestablished position and whose tenure is coterminus with that of the relevant Minister from the restrictions on engaging in political activity as set out in Section 5 of the Code.