Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 December 2013
53. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names and amount by which each programme manager and special adviser in his Department has exceeded the relevant pay guidelines as laid down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54752/13]
View answerThe Guidelines on Ministerial Appointments issued in March 2011 state that Special Advisers are to be placed on the Principal Officer (standard) scale: €75,674 - €92,550. Appointments will be on the first point of the scale, except where the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform sanctions a higher salary rate. I have four Special Advisers in my Department. Salary details for each of them are set out in the following table.
|
Name |
Position held |
Annual Salary |
|
Mark Garrett |
Chief Adviser - Office of the Tánaiste |
€156,380 |
|
Colm O’Reardon |
Economic Adviser - Office of the Tánaiste |
€144,550 |
|
Jean O’Mahony |
Special Adviser - Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade |
€81,676 |
|
Niamh Sweeney |
Special Adviser – Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade |
€78,670 |
