Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and names of all special advisers, special press advisers, or any other type of Ministerial adviser in her Department; the name of the Minister / Minister of State to whom she 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 she will make a statement on the matter. [37488/12]

Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the political activities of each special adviser, special press advisers, or any other type of Ministerial adviser in her Department; if any of them were members of a political party; if so the parties to which they belonged; if any of them are or have been elected local authority members; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37569/12]

Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs 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 she will make a statement on the matter. [40017/12]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1462, 1467 and 1490 together.

As requested by the Deputy, details of the names and salaries for Special Advisers in my Department are set out in tabular form below. In accordance with Department of Finance instructions on Ministerial appointments, my Advisers were placed on the first point of the Principal Officer standard scale on appointment. The Principal Officer scale provides for annual increments and as all my Advisers are in their second year of tenure, all have moved to the second point of the scale. There have been no additional salary increases asked for or granted since their appointment.

Section 5.4 of the Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour excludes staff holding a temporary unestablished position and whose tenure is coterminus with that of the relevant Minister from the restrictions on engaging in political activity as set out in Section 5 of the Code.