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Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 10 March 2022

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Questions (265)

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

265. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education the salaries and pensions paid out to special advisers to Ministers and Ministers of State in her Department in 2020 and 2021, broken down by Minister in tabular form. [11393/22]

Written answers

Minister for Education

The following tabular statement contains the information requested by the Deputy.

2020

Minister/ MoS	Special Adviser	Employed from/to	Annual Salary	Pension
Joe McHugh	Ed Carty	01/01 – 27/06	€94,487	N/A
Joe McHugh	Mark O’Doherty	01/01 – 27/06	€99,177	N/A
Mary Mitchell O’Connor	Lynda McQuaid	01/01 – 27/06	€101,114	N/A
Mary Mitchell O’Connor	Roy Dooney	01/01 – 27/06	€101,114	N/A
John Halligan	Anthony McFeely	01/01 – 27/06	€70,104	N/A
Norma Foley	Aine Doyle	28/06 – 31/12	€89,072	N/A
Norma Foley	Gary Woods	27/10 – 07/11	€89,072	N/A
Norma Foley	*Christy Mannion	29/07 – 27/10	€96,189	Civil Service pension
Norma Foley	Eoin Murphy	08/12 – 31/12	€89,072	N/A
Josepha Madigan	Michael Ward	23/09 – 31/12	€69,012	N/A

2021

Minister/ MoS	Special Adviser	Employed from/to	Annual salary	Pension
Norma Foley	Aine Doyle	01/01 – 31/12	€94,550	N/A
Norma Foley	Eoin Murphy	01/01 – 31/12	€94,550	N/A
Josepha Madigan	Michael Ward	01/01 – 31/12	€72,268	N/A

*Indicates a retired civil servant to whom pension abatement rules applied