Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff in her Department, including all authorities, agencies or other institutions under the aegis of her Department, who have applied for the incentivised early retirement scheme and the incentivised career break scheme; the number who have been made redundant in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29309/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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There have been 32 applications for the incentivised career break scheme within my Department. There have been 21 applications so far for the incentivised scheme for early retirement (ISER) within my Department; however, the closing date for applications for this scheme is 1 September 2009. No staff of the Department have been made redundant in the past 12 months.

The following information is in respect of applications received to date within the agencies under the aegis of my Department.

* No information was received from Intertrade Ireland on the uptake of either scheme.

Redundancy

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42 fixed-term contract staff had their contracts terminated early in January 2009, 11 of the 42 received redundancy payments.