Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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876. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to special advisers; to provide details for requests, if any, for an increase above the special adviser's pay cap as set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24317/16]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The numbers and grades of personally appointed staff in respect of Ministers’ Offices are governed by “Instructions” issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER). In that context, sanction has been received for the following Special Adviser appointments, both working to me as Minister in the Department:

Contract offers are being progressed at this time and once finalised will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. No request has been made for an increase above the special advisers' pay cap as set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.