Why should LAB advisers be paid more than the cap?

[He3]

Minister for spending less smashes pay guidelines.

Officials cautioned Howlin not to pay his adviser €133,600 - The Irish Times - Fri, Jan 13, 2012

We're all special these days?

[CarnivalOfAction]

Minister for spending less smashes pay guidelines.

Officials cautioned Howlin not to pay his adviser €133,600 - The Irish Times - Fri, Jan 13, 2012

We're all special these days?

Labour leaders should be in the "special" class but there are no SNAs.

[leftsoc]

Nobody who feels entitled to this kind of money has any business in the Labour Party. Even on Wall St. people take pay cuts for the priviledge of serving in Governement. These people have an ethos to the right of Wall St. insiders. Shame on Gilmore etc. for having anything to do with these chancers.

[Mushroom]

Read in the Indo yesterday that Lucinda Creighton got special permission to have a special adviser. he is 26! he is young FG and was working for her before presumably as her secretarial assistant or as her parliamentary assistant - whichever it was he would have been near the bottom of the scale. assuming the higher paid job (p/a) he would have been on around €40,000. Now as a special adviser this special 26 year old gets €62,000. With a max of 4 years working experience allowing for college wouldn't there be lots of 26 year old graduates who'd do the job for less?

If the going rate for a Special Adviser to a Minister of State is €62k then that's what MoS Creighton's SA should get, regardless of their age, qualifications, religion, dress sense, choice of car or anything else.