Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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298. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation 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. [36518/13]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Adjustments to pay in accordance with the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 and the relevant provisions of the Haddington Road Agreement, have been implemented from 1 July 2013. The table set out below outlines the salary details of the two Special Advisors appointed by me as Minister for Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation in line with the Guidelines for Ministerial Appointments and as sanctioned by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. There are no Special Advisers appointed by my Department’s Ministers of State.

*Based on 1 July 2013 pay rates