Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 22 January 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment

1:00 pm

Mr. Mark Griffin:

I am sorry; I was on mute. We have about 410 staff in the Department. When that translates into full-time equivalents I think it is around 380. The number that transferred out was quite small. I think it was about a dozen staff in the broadcasting sector of the Department. It is a smallish, policy-focused section. One of the challenges that not just the Deputy but I face when looking at numbers in the Department is the level of churn we are experiencing. We had a discussion with our human resources, HR, people in the Department on Monday and we had 66 people move into the Department during the course of 2020, bearing in mind that we are talking about an overall number of 400, and 52 people move out. That is a combination of retirements, mobility, job sharing and so on so the picture in terms of numbers in any Department at any point in time is very fluid.

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