Written answers

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Exchequer Savings

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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649. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide the saving to the Exchequer if all her special advisers and those of her Ministers of State were capped at the first point on the Principal Officer pay scale. [36510/13]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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As advised to the Deputy, in response to her Parliamentary Question of the 16th July, if both my Special Advisers were capped at the first point of the Principal Officer scale, the total savings to the Exchequer in 2013 would amount of €4,535.

With effect from 1st July 2013 my Ministerial salary amounts to €70,282, which is less than the first point of the Principal Officer Standard scale which amounts to €75,647. Accordingly, capping my salary at the first point of the Principal Officer scale would result in no savings to the Exchequer.

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