Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 253: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of whole time equivalents serving in the his Department in the grades of Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General, Assistant Secretary General, Higher Principal Officer, Principal Officer, Higher Assistant Principal Officer, Assistant Principal Officer, Higher Executive Officer, Executive Officer, Staff Officer and Clerical Officer on 1 January 1998 and 1 January 2007 and the latest date for which figures are available 2009 /2010. [4241/10]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The following table gives details of the number of staff in my Department in each of the grades concerned on 1 December 2002, 1 January 2007 and 1 January 2010. We have also included a number of Departmental and specialist grades. The figures include officers from other Government Departments serving in our missions abroad, most notably, Ireland's Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels. Since January 2009, there has been a net reduction of 54 in staffing levels in my Department. The information sought by the Deputy is not available for the period prior to the inauguration of the present electronic human resources management system in December 2002.