Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Paragraph A13 of the Vote for my Department covers the estimated total cost of special advisers' annual salaries, including the salary of my programme manager, which has been reduced from well over €1 million to €640,000 per annum because I have fewer advisers now. I thought Deputy Gilmore would have noted this for me, to show how much I have reduced it.

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