Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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126. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed and-or recruited and-or in an acting capacity; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary scale for the role in tabular form. [20612/20]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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On the commencement of every Dáil, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform issues guidelines setting out the arrangements for the staffing of Ministerial Offices. The appointment of Special Advisers is subject to section 11 of the Public Service Management Act 1997. 

The Guidelines for the 33rd Dáil, which incorporate the principles of section 11 of the PMSA Act, are currently awaiting Government approval.

The appointment of individual Special Advisers is a matter for each Government Minister subject to the terms set out in the aforementioned guidelines, although the appointments are also subject to formal Government approval.  At this stage, no Special Advisers have been formally appointed to my Department by the Government.

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform must be notified of the rate of salary to be paid in all cases for Special Advisers.  These rates will then be published on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. 

With regards to seconded civil servants working in the Ministers' offices in my Department, similarly no formal appointments have been made pending Government approval of the Guidelines for the 33rd Dáil.