Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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147. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in a tabular format a list of all his special advisers' pay and that of his Minister of State, to include each salary and 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. [18356/13]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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148. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of any and all pay increases awarded to special advisors in his Department over the past two years. [18357/13]

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 147 and 148 together.

There are five Special Advisers employed by my Department, four of whom are my Special Advisers and one of whom is Special Adviser to the Government Chief Whip. The details requested in relation to their salaries is set out in the table below

Mr. O'Brien, Ms. Flanagan and Mr. O'Doherty are on contracts which include incremental progression in line with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidelines on remuneration for Special Advisers. The salary cost for special advisors employed in my Department in 2012 was €581,236. The comparative full year figure for Special Advisors employed in this Department in 2010 was €1,072,920.