Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 27: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in a tabular form, the public sector posts, including in commercial State companies and Government advisors for whom he has approved a breach of a pay cap. [32378/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Last June, I introduced a general pay cap of €250,000 per annum for Chief Executive Officers of Commercial State Companies. At the time I acknowledged that the CEO of the ESB would be paid a higher amount given the importance of the role and I sanctioned €318,083 per annum for this post. Since then a candidate has been appointed who has accepted a salary of €295,000 per annum. This represents a reduction of 43% in the maximum of the scale that applied to the previous incumbent of the post.

The table sets out the position where advisers are being paid above the Principal Officer scale.