Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names and amount by which each programme manager-special adviser in his Department has exceed the relevant pay guidelines as laid down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54749/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following tabular statement.

Mr. John Walshe and Ms. Deirdre Grant are paid within the approved Principal Officers' payscale as provided for in the guidelines for such appointments as published by the Department of Finance on the 24th, March 2011. As their income was greater than the minimum of the PO payscale prior to their appointment, officials at my Department wrote to the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform and requested sanction to place them on a point higher than the minimum of the scale.

In accordance with obligations under the terms of the Ethics in Public Office Acts, copies of the appointees contracts of employment together with details of their qualifications were laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Ruairí Quinn, T.D. Minister for Education & Skills