Ministers’ office staff cost taxpayer €2.5m a year

CIVIL servants working in the constituency offices of ministers cost the Exchequer €2.5 million each year, according to the latest official figures.

Some 82 public servants are attached to the constituency offices of the 15 ministers, some of whom have been seconded from the respective departments.

These are as well as the civil servants working in the ministers’ private offices in their departments and the 63 civil servants and press advisers working in press offices.