Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will give one additional item of information that members might be interested in. Essentially, the Revenue expected some years ago that the required additional staff to deal with Brexit would have been in the order of 600. The estimate during the course of the year was that that figure will eventually be 900. Over 700 of those are currently in place and working. The recruitment campaign has been ongoing for the other 200 in recent months and is expected to be completed as soon as possible in the new year to bring the full complement up to 900, which is the expected figure. We are already well in excess of 700 as we speak, who will deal specifically with Brexit. Most of those staff will be at clerical officer grade. Some will be at higher executive officer or administrative officer level but most will be at normal customs processing grades.