Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 275: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government 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 among his Department and the agencies under his authority; and the way in which this practice fits with the intention of an embargo on recruitment. [36465/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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At present six former employees are working in my Department under contract arrangements, in addition to our permanent staff of 1,363 whole-time equivalents. All are paid an appropriate daily rate which is abated to keep the total of fee and pension payments within the relevant salary. All the contractors involved were formerly employed in professional grades in relation to which delays in recruitment are regularly experienced by my Department. My Department continues to deliver its work within authorised staffing numbers.