Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation

I would like to make a freedom of information request in relation to pay for special advisers to ministers, ministers of state, taoisigh and the Tanaiste. The time frame on my request is from March 2016 to the present. Please can you provide me with: - Any records relating to decisions by secretaries general to approve increments on the PO scale. - Records relating to requests to pay salaries above the PO scale (e.g. justification/business case, correspondence, records relating to decisions to approve these decisions). - Records relating to the notification to DPER of salaries of advisers to taoisigh and the Tanaiste. - Records relating to DPER's decision(s) to approve any discretionary increases, e.g. internal correspondence, correspondence with other departments.