Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in regard to the allocation in the revised Book of Estimates, providing for an increase of more than 8,800 in public service numbers, the areas to which these staff will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12379/06]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The figures in table 5 of the Revised Estimates Volume are the average public service numbers which are calculated on the basis that they equate to the numbers that underpin the Exchequer pay and pensions bill in 2005 and 2006. They are set out in table 5 on a Vote basis with an increase being recorded from 2005-06 of 8,818. This figure includes provision for filling posts that were vacant in 2005. It is a matter for each Minister to deploy resources within Government policy on public service numbers.