Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 11: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff employed by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement; if he has an outstanding request for additional staff or resources for the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16555/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Last year my Department responded to the Director's request for additional staffing resources by increasing the approved Departmental staff complement from 30 to 38. Approved Garda staff numbers were also increased by one in 2007 bringing the total approved staffing complement of the ODCE to 46 posts.

Four of these extra staff were provided to the ODCE in 2007, and my Departmental commitment to providing a further four will be fully met in the first half of this year with two of the four having already been provided. The Director indicated to my Department in late 2007 that having integrated these additional staff, he would review his request for further extra staff at the end of the 2008 and advise my Department at that stage of the results of that review.