The government has been criticising for approving ministerial advisors for 10 junior ministers.
The original plan would have seen all 17 junior ministers with their own advisors, but the government reduced the number.
In the last Dáil the payscale for those advising Ministers of State started at around €67,000 a year.
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rejected criticism from Sinn Féin about the number of advisors hired by this government:
