Taoiseach’s top advisers to be paid salary of €170,000

THE Taoiseach’s top two advisers have been awarded salaries of almost €170,000 each — the same wages paid to senior Government ministers.

A team of four special advisers appointed to Enda Kenny’s “kitchen cabinet” will cost the taxpayer €440,000 a year.

The figures do not include the Government press secretary Eoghan Ó Neachtain, who was paid a salary of €138,655 last year.