Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budget and staff employed by the National Employment Rights Authority for each year of its existence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5686/09]

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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NERA was established on an interim basis in February 2007. Staff attached to the Labour Inspectorate, Employment Rights Information Unit and Employment Rights Prosecution and Enforcement Unit of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment were subsumed into NERA at that time.

98 members of staff were employed by NERA at 31 December 2007. At 31 December 2008, NERA employed 133 staff members of staff. The current staff complement is 131.

NERA's outturn for 2007 totalled €6.957 million.

NERA's provisional outturn for 2008 stands at €9.595 million.

NERA's estimate provision for 2009 amounts to €9.701 million.