Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 492: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of officials at principal officer level or higher, in both absolute terms and as a percentage of total staff, who are expected to be working in his Department following full implementation of the incentivised early retirement scheme. [36861/09]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The closing date for the incentivised early retirement scheme has been extended to 23 October 2009 and therefore the final figures for staff in my Department availing of the scheme are not available. However, based on the applications approved to date there will be 38 administrative staff, 21 professional and technical staff, 8 Local Government Audit Service staff and 11 Met Eireann staff at principal officer level or higher working in my Department following all the scheduled departures under this scheme. This represents 5.8% of the total staff in my Department.