Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of special advisors for whom salary increases have been requested; the amount requested; the details of those granted increases and the amount by which they were increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37163/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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As I have advised in previous PQs since I appointed Anne Byrne and Ronan O’Brien as special advisors no salary increases have been requested in respect of either appointment. However, on appointment, Ms Anne Byrne was placed on the second point of the PO Standard non-PPC scale with effect from 10 March 2011. In accordance with the 'Instructions to Personnel Officers - Ministerial Appointments for the 31st Dail', dated 24 March 2011 which was issued by the Department of Finance and which states the following in relation to Special Advisers and Increments: 'Where a Special Adviser is placed on a salary point below the maximum of the scale he or she may be paid an annual increment until the maximum of that scale is reached .' Ms Byrne progressed to the next point of the scale with effect from 10 March 2012.