Written answers
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Department of Health and Children
Health Service Staff
9:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of personnel employed in the delivery of the health services; the extent to which this number has fluctuated in each of the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16684/08]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The main source of employment data in the health services is the Health Service Executive's Health Services Personnel Census which is derived from payroll history in each agency. The census collects data on actual staffing level for each staff grade in each health agency at a given point in time. Up to and including 2002 the census was conducted annually. Since 2003 the census has been carried out quarterly at the end of March, June, September and December each year.
The data referred to in the question is set out in the following table (source: Health Service Personnel Census):
| Numbers employed in the Public Health Service (all figures expressed as whole-time equivalents — excludes those on career break) | ||||||||||
| Year end | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| Total | 69,640 | 72,793 | 80,070 | 90,302 | 95,679 | 96,501 | 98,723 | 101,978 | 106,273 | 111,505 |
| % Increase on previous year | 2.65 | 4.53 | 9.99 | 12.78 | 5.95 | 0.86 | 2.30 | 3.30 | 4.21 | 4.92 |
| Notes | ||||||||||
| 1 Excludes Home Helps | ||||||||||
| 2 Student nurses are included in the 2007 employment ceiling on the basis of 3.5 students equating to 1 wholetime equivalent. The December 2007 employment level adjusted for student nurses on the above basis is 110,597 wte. |
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