Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 January 2017
103. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach if any of his special advisers, personal assistants or personal secretaries and other non-established civil servants, whose contracts were coterminous with his holding the office of Taoiseach, that ceased employment on 6 May 2016 on the election of a new Government, were afforded two weeks' pay in lieu of notice. [1622/17]
View answerNo staff members whose contracts were coterminous with me as holder of the office of Taoiseach ceased employment on 6 May 2016.
However, my Department did pay two weeks' salary in lieu of notice to two members of staff in 2016:
- a civilian driver whose contract was coterminous with the Leader of the Seanad; and
- the Deputy Government Press Secretary whose contract was coterminous with the then Tánaiste.
