Cabinet to spend €10m on advisers

BRIAN COWEN and his cabinet will spend at least €10 million this year on their teams of special advisers, press officers and personal assistants, figures reveal.

Cabinet to spend €10m on advisers
Mon, 28 Jul, 2008 - 01:00

The Taoiseach will spend €1.9 million on back-up staff including €856,480 on six advisers and €663,868 on press officers.

Mr Cowen’s programme manager, Joe Lennon, is the highest paid, earning a salary of €216,516 this year. Mr Lennon previously worked as a press secretary for former taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.

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