Written answers

Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Ministerial Advisers

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants 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 each role in tabular form. [22538/20]

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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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, have recently been approved by Government.

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.

However, the Deputy may wish to note that I have assigned three Special Advisers and Minister Naughton has assigned two Special Advisers, each of which will be formally appointed by the Government now that the Guidelines have been approved.

As part of the formal appointment process 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.

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