Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s 17 backroom staff earn €1.4m annually

Seventeen backroom political personnel in Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s department are earning almost €1.4m a year, with a number handed pay rises since entering office.

Documents show the sum is being shared among personal assistants, press secretaries, and special advisers, including three on salaries over the €92,672 public pay cap.

The details were provided to Social Democrats TD Róisín Shortall as part of a Dáil parliamentary question response.