Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names and amount by which each Programme Manager/Special Advisor in his Department has exceed the relevant pay guidelines as laid down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54752/13]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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The Guidelines on Ministerial Appointments issued in March 2011 state that Special Advisers are to be placed on the Principal Officer (standard) scale: €75,674 - €92,550. Appointments will be on the first point of the scale, except where the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform sanctions a higher salary rate. I have four Special Advisers in my Department. Salary details for each of them are set out in the following table.