Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and names of all special advisers, special press advisers, or any other type of Ministerial adviser in his Department; the name of the Minister / Minister of State to whom he reports; the salary of each advisor now; the salary of each advisor at the time they were appointed; if any salary increase was asked for; if this was granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37498/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The name and salary of each of the Special Advisers appointed by me is as follows:

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.