Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 268: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people employed in the public sector for each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1254/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The number of people employed in the public sector at the 31 December for each year since 1997 is presented in the following table. The numbers employed in the public sector is constituted by the numbers of whole time equivalents employed in the civil service, the education sector, the justice sector, the health sector, the local authorities, the non-commercial agencies and the commercial semi-state bodies. It should be noted that the numbers for 2008 are projections and were prepared in the context of Budget 2009 and will be updated in due course.