Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 210: To ask the Taoiseach the number of public sector employees here at present; and the percentage of the overall workforce which is employed in the public service. [32541/05]

Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The latest CSO figures on public sector employment are for June 2005 and indicate that there were 350,100 persons employed in the public sector. The figures are based mainly on administrative data sources and include the Civil Service, Defence Forces, Garda Síochána, regional bodies, health and education, excluding private institutions, and semi-State bodies, excluding their subsidiaries.

The latest estimate of total employment in the State, based on the Quarterly national household survey, is that there were 1,929,200 persons in employment in the March-May quarter of this year.