Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisors in his Department over the last two years. [18309/13]

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in a tabular format a list of all his special advisors pay and that of his Minister of State, to include each salary, name of employee above principal officer standard scale salary rate; and if he will supply the total pay bill for all his special advisors for 2012 [18323/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos.213 and 214 together.

I have not appointed any special advisers in my role as Minister for Defence. I have however engaged the services of a personal assistant who assists me in constituency matters. The annual salary attached to this post is €56,060 which is in accordance with Department of Public Expenditure & Reform guidelines concerning Ministerial appointments.

Similarly, no special advisers have been appointed by Mr. Paul Kehoe, T.D. in his role as Minister of State at the Department of Defence.