Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 255: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do work which has traditionally been done in-house amongst her Department and the agencies under her authority; and the way in which this practice fits with the intention of an embargo on recruitment. [36463/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Some 28 former employees have been brought back to work on contract in the Department of Education and Science since 2000. Two former employees were brought back to work on contract in this period on the basis of information supplied by the agencies under my authority. Short-term employment contracts of this nature are not considered as part of the overall numbers employed by the Department.