Government parties set to spend €6m a year on special advisers

The Government at their first cabinet meeting in Dublin Castle last June, led by Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, and Climate Action Minister Eamon Ryan. Figures relating to 23 out of 64 media and politicly advisers reveal their combined yearly earnings will top €2m, with eight of these appointees on salaries of over €100,000. Picture: Julien Behal/PA

The Government is set to spend up to €6m a year on 64 politically appointed special advisers, new figures reveal.

Details of the salaries of specials advisers appointed by 13 of the Government's ministers and ministers of state show that they earn between €67,659 and €101,114.