Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 9 Oct 2002

Vol. 554 No. 5

Written Answers. - Departmental Expenditure.

Bernard Allen

Ceist:

204 Mr. Allen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount paid since July 1997 to date in 2002 in fees, salary, allowances, including delegates' allowances, expenses and other payments to any person in or under the aegis of her Department who is or was a special adviser within the meaning of the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995; the name of the person in each case; the amount paid to each person; the breakdown as between salary, allowances, expenses and other payments; the date on which each person was appointed; in the case of persons no longer holding such position, the date on which the appointment ceased. [17262/02]

Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Ms Harney):

The details of salary, allowances and expenses paid to those persons under the aegis of this Department who were or are special advisers, within the meaning of the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995, are given for the period 26 June 1997 to date in the following tables.

Breakdown of Salaries 1997 to date

Name	Position Held	DateAppointed	Date Ceased to Hold Post	Remuneration	1997-1998	1998-1999	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001	2002to date	Totals
				€	€	€	€	€	€	€
Maurice Roche	Economic Adviser to the Tánaiste	01-07-97		43,929.35	60,055.42	65,466.41	78,948.49	70,970.35	81,824.62	401,194.64
Gerry Donnelly	Special Adviser to the Tánaiste	12-01-98	05-07-99	9,372.77	71,064.99					80,437.76
John O'Brien	Special Adviser to the Tánaiste	01-12-99				22,440.80	74,905.56	61,922.89	39,824.66	199,093.91
Oliver O'Connor	Special Adviser to the Tánaiste	15-01-01					18,007.03	64,728.02	72,527.49	155,262.54
Clara Coogan	Policy Aide to Tánaiste (loaned to Mininister of State Liz O'Donnell TD)	10-01-00	20-07-01			11,341.63	52,988.63	17,211.60		81,541.86
Catherine Dardis	Personal Assistant to the Tánaiste	27-06-97		23,854.67	31,826.39	31,538.47	34,496.61	26,976.15		148,692.29
Eanna Casey	Personal Assistant to Minister of State Tom Kitt TD	10-07-97	17-11-00	15,928.91	24,258.17	12,433.38	34,631.93			87,252.39
John Lahart	Personal Assistant to Minister of State Tom Kitt TD	08/12/00	06/6/02				11,633.40	32,197.16	30,301.31	74,131.87
Claudia McCarthy	Personal Assistant to Minister of State Fahey TD	19/06/02							10,717.72	10,717.72
Colm Leahy	Personal Assistant to Minister of State Ahern TD	01/08/02							6,369.18	6,369.18

Breakdown of Expenses 1997 to Date

Name	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	Total
	€	€	€	€	€	€	€
Maurice Roche	421.08	4,892.61	5,105.29	3,395.52	4,879.04	2,658.43	21,351.97
Gerry Donnelly		3,527.19	8,415.49				11,942.68
John O'Brien			378.61	2,625.51	2,855.87	nil	5,859.99
Oliver O'Connor						5,994.78	5,994.78
Catherine Dardis	1,357.15	226.90	1,814.16	708.12	1,400.57	318.03	5,506.90
Eanna Casey	2,336.17	6,736.86	7,152.83	9,698.86			25,924.72
John Lahart				473.50	7,094.47	nil	7,567.97
Colm Leahy						410.21	410.21

No expenses were paid to Ms Clara Coogan during her tenure as policy aide nor have any expenses been paid to date to Ms Claudia McCarthy, personal assistant to Minister of State, Mr. Frank Fahey, TD.

Mr. Gerry Donnelly was paid an allowance totalling €7,284.44 while a special adviser to An Tánaiste.

No allowances have been paid to date to any of the other special advisers listed above.

In line with Department of Finance guidelines, contributions have been made into approved private pension schemes for the following:

Name	Period	Total to date
		€
Dr. Maurice Roche	July 1997 to date	26,560.05
Oliver O'Connor	2001/2002	9,776.98
Catherine Dardis	July 1997 to date	13,749.95