Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of full-time civil servants within his Department, who first entered the service as political advisers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4792/04]

Charlie McCreevy (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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In the period since I took office as Minister for Finance, there have been no appointments as permanent and pensionable civil servants in my Department of people who were political advisers prior to appointment.