Written answers
Thursday, 10 November 2005
Department of Foreign Affairs
Departmental Staff
5:00 pm
Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 91: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff that have been recruited to his Department in each of the past five years; the number of staff taken into his Department by way of transfer; and the projected number of staff proposed to be recruited during the next five years. [33482/05]
Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The following table sets out the information requested by the Deputy. It should be noted that a significant number of staff will also have left the Department during this period, on transfer to other Departments or offices. Others will have retired or resigned, or availed of the option to take career breaks or special leave. I am afraid that I am unable to estimate the number of staff that will be recruited by the Department over the next five years.
| Table: Departmental recruitment during the period 2000-2005 to date. | ||
| A | B | C |
| 2000 | 117 | 6 |
| 2001 | 144 | 12 |
| 2002 | 201 | 13 |
| 2003 | 102 | 11 |
| 2004 | 65 | 45 |
| 2005 to date | 49 | 19 |
| Note 1: The information provided above excludes the following categories: | ||
| 1.Temporary staff recruited to serve in ministerial offices, whose appointments are or were coterminous with those of the Ministers concerned; | ||
| 2.Staff temporarily recruited in connection with the additional work which arose in the lead-up to and during Ireland's EU Presidency in the first half of 2004; | ||
| 3.Stagiaires; and | ||
| 4.Temporary staff recruited for seasonal work in the Passport Office and staff locally recruited by Irish Missions. | ||
| Note 2: Column C also includes staff of the former National Committee for Development Education and the former Agency for Personal Service Overseas that were integrated into the Department in 2003 and 2004 respectively. |
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