Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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490. To ask the Minister for Finance the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [19745/22]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and or Ministers of State in the Department of Finance in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, were as follows:

* Voluntary Surrender of Pay is deducted from the salaries of both the Minister for Finance and the Minister of State for the Department of Finance and returned to the Exchequer.

** Mr. Pascal Donohoe T.D. did not receive a salary from the Department of Finance while holding the offices of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and Minister for Finance up to 23 July 2020. Upon his appointment as Minister for Finance only on the formation of Government on 23 July 2020 he transferred to the payroll of the Department for Finance.

*** 2020 figures is comprised of salaries and expenses for three Ministers of State for the Department of Finance that served over the course of the year.

**** In 2020 and 2022 four Special Advisors served in the Department between the Minister for Finance and the Ministers of State for the Department of Finance. In 2021 five Special Advisors served in the Department between the Minister for Finance and the Minister of State for the Department of Finance.