Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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598. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide the saving to the Exchequer if all his special advisers and those of his Ministers of State were capped at the first point on the Principal Officer pay scale. [36512/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I have not appointed any special advisers in my role as Minister for Defence. I have 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 below the first point of the Principal pay scale.