Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Supplementary)
2:15 pm
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Yes. We propose to continue them on an ongoing basis. The employment control framework figure at the end of the year is 6,350, and we also have 20 people from the Garda and 218 people working on the public services card, which gives a total of 6,588. The actual number at the end of October was 6,550. Even now we are recruiting in or around another 40 people. We expect that process to be ongoing.