Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 135: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employees in the civil and public service for each of the past ten years; if he will clarify if these figures include employees of State and semi-State bodies; if he will indicate the impact which the embargo and recruitment in the public service is having on numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34205/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Public Service Numbers reported to my Department for each of the past 10 years are set out in table 1 below. The moratorium on recruitment and promotion was introduced by the Government at the end of March 2009. Since the introduction of the moratorium the numbers employed in the public service have steadily decreased and the latest numbers reported to my Department for end-June 2010 were 308,370. This is a decrease of approximately 11,000 whole time equivalents since the end of 2008.

Table 1: Public Service Numbers at end-year 2000-2009

* Note that the above figures are on a whole-time equivalent basis, and are subject to revisions reflecting methodological changes and updated information regarding numbers in particular sectors.

These numbers include employees in the Civil Service, Education Sector, Justice Sector, Health Sector, Defence Sector, Local Authority Sector and Non-Commercial State Agencies (NCSA). In addition, public servants whose pay is not in all cases funded directly by the Exchequer are included in the numbers. The largest category of these is Local Authority employees but there are also staff in some Non-Commercial State Agencies whose pay is funded from the own resources of these bodies.