Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the saving to the Exchequer if all his special advisers and those of his Ministers of State were capped at the first point on the Principal Officer pay scale. [36520/13]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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In response to the Deputy's question the total annual savings to the Exchequer if the salaries of the Special Advisers in my Department were capped at the first point on the Principal Officer pay scale would amount to €34,859.00. My Minister of State has no Special Advisers.