Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

When he answered similar questions last November the Taoiseach gave a list of the political staff and advisers employed in his Department. That does not include the staff employed in the constituency offices of the Taoiseach and respective Ministers of State. The total cost of the staff in the Taoiseach's Department is just over €1.5 million a year. We have some idea of the value of that cost to the Taoiseach but what is the value of that cost to the taxpayer?

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