Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 450: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of posts in the Office of Tobacco Control occupied by staff on fixed-term contracts; and when those contracts end. [33360/09]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 451: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of posts in the Office for Tobacco Control occupied by staff on secondment; and when those staff are required to return to their original posts. [33361/09]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 452: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of posts, full time and part time, which will exist in the Office for Tobacco Control at the end of 2009. [33362/09]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 453: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the staffing levels it is intended to maintain at the Office of Tobacco Control until such time as the office has been merged with the Medicines Board and the Food Authority of Ireland in 2010. [33363/09]

Áine Brady (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 450 to 453, inclusive, together.

There are four posts occupied by staff on fixed term contracts that expire on 31 December 2009. Three posts are occupied by staff on secondment, who are due to return to their original posts by 31 December 2009. Three further posts are occupied by staff on contracts of indefinite duration. My Department is currently considering a proposal that was submitted by the Office for Tobacco Control in September, outlining the staffing levels required to maintain the Office until the merger.