Written answers
Tuesday, 28 June 2005
Department of An Taoiseach
Ministerial Staff
10:00 pm
Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question 150: To ask the Taoiseach the names, titles, dates of appointment, total annual salary, including pension contributions, of each of the special or political advisers, personal assistants or personal secretaries appointed by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22540/05]
Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
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The names, titles, dates of appointment and total annual salary including pension contributions, of each of the special advisers, personal assistants and personal secretaries appointed by me are detailed in the following table.
| Names | Titles | Dates of Appointment | Annual Salary including pension contributions |
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| Gerry Hickey | Programme Manager and Special Adviser | 27/06/1997 | 195,676 |
| Gerard Howlin | Special Adviser | 08/06/1999 | 115,775* |
| Una Claffey | Special Adviser | 13/11/2000 | 115,775* |
| Brian Murphy | Special Adviser | 01/03/1999 | 87,422 |
| Joe Lennon | Special Adviser | 27/06/1997 | 115,775 |
| Katherine Bulbulia | Programme Manager to Tánaiste | 21/07/1997 | 136,972 |
| John Lahart | Special Adviser to Minister of State and Chief Whip | 29/09/2004 | 75,036* |
| Padraig Slyne | Special Adviser (with responsibility for co-ordination between all Ministers of State) | 01/10/2004 | 57,630* |
| Sarah McLoughlin | Personal Assistant | 02/04/2001 | 45,457 |
| Denise Kavanagh | Personal Assistant | 28/06/1997 | 53,191 |
| Olive Melvin | Personal Assistant | 27/06/1997 | 53,191 |
| Yvonne Graham | Personal Assistant | 02/05/2000 | 46,691 |
| Sean Nolan | Personal Assistant | 27/06/1997 | 47,921 |
| Harry Murphy | Personal Assistant to Minister of State and Government Chief Whip | 27/10/2004 | 40,543 |
| Perpetua Brady | Personal Secretary | 14/08/2000 | 33,271 |
| Tracey Young | Personal Secretary to Minister of State and Government Chief Whip | 29/09/2004 | 41,280 |
| *These members of staff, who are not members of a Civil Service pension scheme, receive a contribution towards their pension fund which they arrange separately. All other staff are members of Civil Service pension schemes, for which separate superannuation arrangements are in place. |
The 16 staff listed above, of which five are civil servants, are support staff to the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Government Chief Whip. This compares with 15 staff at similar grades working to the Taoiseach and Ministers of State at this Department prior to June 1997. A further four political staff were employed in the Office of the Tánaiste in Government Buildings at that time also, that is pre-June 1997.
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