Cabinet advisers get pay rise to mark first year

Many ministerial advisers have seen their salaries increase to reward them for their first year in the job.

Details of their pay rises emerged as Labour leader Eamon Gilmore comes under pressure from his backbenchers to reflect on the generous pay levels to advisers.

Mr Gilmore is one of at least nine ministers whose advisers were awarded incremental pay increases after they moved up the civil service pay scale following their first year in the job.