Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 160: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people who have been employed in the public service on 1 June for each of the past five years including 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29742/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The number of people employed in the public service at the 31 December for the last five years is presented, as reported to my Department, in the attached table. The numbers employed in the public service 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 and the non-commercial agencies. While a new quarterly system for collecting public sector numbers has been introduced in the last few months, and numbers for the end of the first quarter are currently being compiled, I am reporting end-December numbers because of the systems that were in place and for comparative purposes.