Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands

Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge: An Roinn Leanaí agus Gnóthaí Óige

4:00 pm

Dr. Fergal Lynch:

We are pretty much reaching our upper limit. I do not anticipate a significant number of additional people. I would have thought, and I am only surmising at this stage, that there would be no more than nine or ten additional people. There will also be some staff turnover arising from retirements and people leaving to move elsewhere. A very small proportion of the total number of people working in the Department are likely to be moving on or changing jobs.