Written answers
Wednesday, 28 September 2005
Department of Finance
Public Service Staffing
9:00 pm
Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 484: To ask the Minister for Finance the latest figure for the number of persons in public service employment in the State. [24554/05]
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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At the end of March 2005, returns from Departments showed that there were 283,307 whole-time equivalents serving in the public service, comprising:
| Number | |
| Civil servants — non-industrials | 35,136 |
| Civil Service — industrials | 1,858 |
| Health sector | 99,700 |
| Education sector | 80,400 |
| Defence | 11,443 |
| Gardaí | 12,216 |
| Local authorities | 33,452 |
| Non-commercial semi-State bodies | 9,102 |
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