Seán Connick (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Question 543: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff in her Department and any agency under its remit who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12307/10]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The tables details the number of posts in the Department, and in the agencies under the aegis of the Department, as at February 2010, that are primarily occupied in the functions concerned. Posts occupied in the Department at February 2010

The staff detailed above as primarily employed on means assessment are the staff in the Department's Inspectorate. However, while means assessment constitutes a significant element of their work, their duties also include the combating of fraud and abuse of all the Department's schemes and reviews of means tested payments to ensure the conditions regarding entitlement continue to be satisfied.

In addition, other staff carry out some means assessment as part of a wide range of duties involved in dealing with claims. But means assessment on its own is their primary function. Posts occupied in the agencies under the remit of the Department