Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in her Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [19743/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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">Salaries and Expenses

The salary scale for Special Adviser to a Minister is the same as the Civil Service Principal Officer pay scale and the pay scale for Special Adviser to a Minister of State is equivalent to the Assistant Principal Officer scale, under the terms of the Guidelines for Ministerial Appointments to the 33rd Dáil.

In the event that an appointee is a retired Civil Servant, pension abatement rules apply.