Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 110: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of corporate enforcement officers currently employed by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement; the number of cases dealt with by the ODCE in each year from 2002 to date in 2006; the average time from a case file being opened to a satisfactory resolution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18198/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The ODCE currently has about 29 staff who are engaged in corporate enforcement work. The breakdown in the table that follows excludes staff involved on a full-time or part-time basis in company law compliance and ODCE corporate services work.

The Director provides information and statistics in his Annual Reports and End-of-Year Statements on the results and work of his Office. These documents are available on the ODCE website at www.odce.ie. I have also included a table which summarises the most recent headline results available to my Department for each of the years 2002 to 2005 with respect to case assessment and enforcement in the company law area.

The Director does not publish figures for the average time taken to conclude a case, and it is my Department's understanding that he does not regard it as a meaningful or reliable measurement of progress because of the diversity and occasional complexity of the cases under ODCE investigation.