Written answers
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Department of Health and Children
Departmental Staff
9:00 pm
Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 471: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff in her Department, broken down by division and section, annually since 2007 to date in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2171/10]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out below.
| Number of Staff (Wholetime Equivalents) | ||||
| Division | Unit | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| Ministers | Minister | 17.00 | 15.00 | 11.00 |
| Minister of State Devins | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Minister of State Gallagher | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Minister of State Smith | 11.90 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Minister of State Hoctor | 10.50 | 10.50 | 0.00 | |
| Minister of State Moloney | 0.00 | 9.80 | 9.80 | |
| Minister of State Wallace | 0.00 | 13.00 | 0.00 | |
| Minister of State Andrews | 0.00 | 9.60 | 8.6 | |
| Minister of State Brady | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 | |
| TOTAL | 60.40 | 57.90 | 39.40 | |
| Secretary General's Office | Secretary General's Office (inc. Sec Gen) | 4.00 | 4.00 | 3.00 |
| Mac Support/Misc | 3.50 | 4.00 | 2.00 | |
| Office of the Chief Medical Officer | CMO's Office | 6.60 | 5.40 | 6.60 |
| Acute Hospitals & Associated Services | Assistant Secretary | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Cancer | 3.80 | 2.80 | 4.30 | |
| Acute Hospitals I | 6.60 | 6.60 | 6.60 | |
| Acute Hospitals II | 7.60 | 7.60 | 7.60 | |
| Blood Policy | 7.00 | 6.40 | 4.60 | |
| TOTAL | 26.00 | 24.40 | 24.10 | |
| Office of the Minister for Children & Youth Affairs | Director General | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Child Welfare & Protection | 13.80 | 13.80 | 11.10 | |
| National Children's Strategy Unit | 20.20 | 22.50 | 21.20 | |
| Childcare Programmes | 19.30 | 18.20 | 17.60 | |
| Youth Affairs Unit | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 | |
| TOTAL | 54.30 | 55.50 | 59.90 | |
| Office for Disability & Mental Health | Director | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Disability | 16.30 | 17.80 | 15.90 | |
| Mental Health | 9.60 | 8.60 | 7.40 | |
| TOTAL | 26.90 | 27.40 | 24.30 | |
| Office for Older People | Director | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Services for Older People | 15.60 | 15.10 | 14.53 | |
| Long Stay Charges Unit | 9.80 | 8.80 | 9.60 | |
| Strategy Unit | 0.00 | 1.40 | 6.00 | |
| TOTAL | 26.40 | 26.30 | 31.13 | |
| Primary Care & Social Inclusion | Assistant Secretary | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Primary Care I | 9.80 | 7.80 | 6.80 | |
| Primary Care II | 4.50 | 6.50 | 6.00 | |
| Social Inclusion | 11.50 | 10.00 | 8.90 | |
| Health Promotion | 10.40 | 8.73 | 6.43 | |
| Food & Medicines | 21.70 | 21.60 | 20.45 | |
| Public Health | 11.30 | 10.50 | 13.00 | |
| TOTAL | 70.20 | 66.13 | 62.58 | |
| Finance, Information & Policy | Assistant Secretary | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Finance I | 23.60 | 22.00 | 22.20 | |
| Finance II | 4.50 | 4.50 | 3.50 | |
| Information Management Unit | 11.73 | 11.73 | 7.00 | |
| Performance Evaluation (Policy Support) | 4.00 | 5.00 | 6.20 | |
| Research, EU & International | 7.80 | 7.30 | 7.90 | |
| TOTAL | 52.63 | 51.53 | 47.80 | |
| Eligibility & Public Health | Assistant Secretary | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Eligibility Review | 4.50 | 4.50 | 3.00 | |
| Patient Safety & Quality Assurance | 4.00 | 4.60 | 5.60 | |
| Public/Private Healthcare & Insurance | 6.60 | 6.60 | 4.80 | |
| TOTAL | 16.10 | 16.70 | 14.40 | |
| Parliamentary & Corporate Affairs | Assistant Secretary | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Corporate Services & Development (inc. Press Office) | 22.60 | 21.10 | 16.86 | |
| Human Resources | 14.50 | 14.50 | 13.80 | |
| ICT & Records Management | 21.81 | 22.76 | 19.83 | |
| Legal Unit | 5.30 | 6.13 | 6.53 | |
| Legislation Unit | 4.40 | 3.60 | 0.00 | |
| Parliamentary Affairs | 8.50 | 8.50 | 8.00 | |
| Internal Audit | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | |
| Portering Services | 8.00 | 10.00 | 8.00 | |
| TOTAL | 91.26 | 90.59 | 77.02 | |
| National HR & Workforce Planning | Assistant Secretary | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| National HR & Workforce Planning 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.10 | |
| National HR & Workforce Planning 11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.5 | |
| Medical & Dental | 10.30 | 9.40 | 7.90 | |
| Health Reform | 4.60 | 8.40 | 0.00 | |
| Nursing | 14.30 | 13.30 | 0.00 | |
| Professional Management & Support | 18.50 | 12.70 | 12.90 | |
| TOTAL | 48.70 | 44.80 | 42.40 | |
| Other Offices | Adoption Board | 29.05 | 31.85 | 31.25 |
| Health Repayment Scheme | 4.00 | 6.00 | 7.00 | |
| Office of the Disability Appeals Officer | 5.00 | 4.00 | 4.00 | |
| Ombudsman for Children | 10.00 | 10.00 | 9.00 | |
| General Registrar's Office | 57.43 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| OVERALL TOTAL | 590.32 | 526.50 | 485.88 | |
Note:
Over the period concerned internal reorganisation led to the creation of some new units and the merging of others.
An additional 24.17 WTEs transferred into my Department during 2009 as a result of the transfer of youth affairs responsibilities from the Department of Education and Science, other functions from the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and the dissolution of the National Council on Aging and Older People and the Women's Health Council under the rationalisation of agencies programme.
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