Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If I may finish – I did not interrupt the Senator at all – there was a top-up given to some ministerial advisers, in some cases signed off by the then Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, and a second by the present Minister, Deputy Donohoe. There are cases made. I have always made the point, and am on record as saying, that there should never have been a breach in the salary limit for advisers to Ministers.