Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 1171: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons employed in his Department by grade; the number of agencies under his remit; and the number of staff employed in each agency by grade. [33708/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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There are 17 agencies and executive offices of my Department that are funded from Vote 19 (Office of the Minister for Justice and Law Reform) and staffed by my Department. Staff of these agencies and executive offices are, with the exception of technical and professional grades, interchangeble with staff of the Department and their staffing numbers can go up or down at any given time depending on overall priorities. There are a total of 1,961 whole-time equivalent staff serving in my Department and agencies and executive offices staffed by it (including administrative staff in the Irish Prisons Service).

The following table provides a grade breakdown of this figure, which does not include bodies in the wider Justice Sector which recruit their own staff such as An Garda Síochána, the Courts Service, Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, Legal Aid Board, Property Registration Authority, and non-administrative staff in the Irish Prison Service.