Deirdre Clune (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance the impact on public service employment of the embargo effective from the end of March 2009. [27888/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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On the 27 March 2009, I announced a moratorium on recruitment and promotion in the public service with certain exceptions in the health and education sectors. The information to hand indicates that, by the end of June, the Department of Finance had received approximately 620 applications for the filling of specific posts comprehended by the moratorium, of which, the filling of 191 have been sanctioned. Of these Civil Service full-time posts accounted for 103 applications of which sanctions was conveyed in 69 cases. The filling of Public Service posts accounts for some 517 posts and sanction has been conveyed in 122 cases.