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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 April 2022

Tuesday, 26 April 2022

Ceisteanna (1180)

Sorca Clarke

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1180. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [19747/22]

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Under the terms of the “Guidelines for Ministerial Appointments to the 33rd Dáil” the salary scale for Special Adviser to a Minister is the same as the Civil Service Principal Officer pay scale whereas the pay scale for Special Adviser to a Minister of State is equivalent to the Assistant Principal Officer scale. In the event an appointee is a retired Civil Servant pension abatement applies. 

The following tables contain the information requested by the Deputy.

Minister Harris:

YEAR  

SALARY  

EXPENSES  

2020

€179,213 pa

€3,732

2021

€181,291 pa

€11,180

2022

€183,923 pa

€4,628

Minister Collins, T.D. 

YEAR  

SALARY  

EXPENSES  

2020

€137,676 pa

€8,714

2021

€139,754 pa

€21,608

2022

€141,657 pa

€10,414

I have two Special Advisers. In 2021, one advisor left in March and was replaced in April.

YEAR  

SALARY  

EXPENSES  

2020

€200,579

Nil

2021

€192,920

€858

2022

€198,736   (this is a full year cost)

€326

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