Written answers
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
Departmental Staff
5:00 pm
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 205: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of public servants who have left under the incentivised early retirement scheme with details of grades; the number of public servants who left for other reasons with details of grades; the number of new staff recruited with details of grades; the number of promotions with details of grades; the net savings arising from the staff leaving over and above those recruited and promoted and to provide a breakdown of each of these figures for years 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010. [38324/10]
Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The accompanying tables provide a breakdown of the number of new staff recruited to my Department with details of grades; the number of promotions with details of grades; the number of staff who have left under the incentivised early retirement scheme with details of grades and the number of staff who left for other reasons with details of grades for years 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010.
Number of new staff recruited in 2008 under the following headings:
| Grade | Recruited through the Public Appointments Service | Transferred in on Promotion | Transferred in via Decentralisation /Dublin Surplus |
| Accountant Grade1 | 1 | ||
| Auditor | 1 | ||
| Solicitor | 1 | ||
| Principal Officer | 2 | ||
| Assistant Principal | 3 | ||
| Administration Officer | 1 | 1 | |
| Higher Executive Officer (HEO)HEO Labour Inspector | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| Executive Officer (EO)EO Labour Inspector | 69 | 16 | 2 |
| Clerical Officer | 35 | 10 | |
| Service Attendant | 1 |
Number of new staff recruited in 2009 under the following headings:
| Grade | Recruited through the Public Appointments Service / Ministerial Appointment | Transferred in via Decentralisation /Dublin Surplus |
| Member of Labour Court | 1 | |
| Assistant Principal | 2 | |
| Higher Executive Officer (HEO)HEO Labour Inspector | 1 | |
| Executive Officer (EO)EO Labour Inspector | 5 | |
| Clerical Officer | 9 |
Number of new staff recruited in 2010 under the following headings:
| Grade | Recruited through the Public Appointments Service / Ministerial Appointment | Transferred in on Secondment | Transferred in via Decentralisation /Dublin Surplus |
| Legal Adviser | 1 | ||
| Deputy Chair of Labour Court | 1 | ||
| Principal Officer | 1 | ||
| Assistant Principal | 1 | ||
| Higher Executive Officer (HEO) | 2 | ||
| Executive Officer (EO) | 1 | ||
| Clerical Officer | 3 |
Number of Promotions with details of grades:
| Grade | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Staff Officer | 4 | Nil | |
| Executive Officer | 15 | 3 | Nil |
| Higher Executive Officer | 17 | Nil | |
| Assistant Principal | 10 | Nil | |
| Principal Officer | 3 | Nil | |
| Principal Officer (Deputy Director of Conciliation LRC | 1 | Nil | |
| Superintendent of Cleaners | 1 | Nil | |
| Service Attendant | 1 | Nil |
Numbers do not include political appointees, i.e. Special Advisers, Personal Assistants, Personal Secretaries or Civilian Drivers appointed by the Minister or Ministers of State.
Those who left the Department under the Incentivised Early Retirement Scheme (ISER) and staff who left for reasons other than ISER: The ISER scheme operated from 1st May 2009 until 31st August 2010
| Grade | Left in 2008 | ISER2009 | Other than ISER2009 | ISER2010 | Other than ISER2010 |
| Chair / Member of Competition Authority/ Labour Court | 3 | 3 | |||
| Accountant Grade1 | 1 | ||||
| Legal Adviser | 1 | ||||
| Senior Economist Competition Authority | 1 | ||||
| Case Officer Competition Authority | 1 | ||||
| Assistant Secretary | 1 | ||||
| Principal Officer | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Assistant Principal | 7 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 |
| Administration Officer | 1 | ||||
| Higher Executive Officer | 5 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 5 |
| Executive Officer | 11 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 5 |
| Staff Officer | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| Clerical Officer | 21 | 18 | 7 | ||
| Services Officer | 1 | 1 | |||
| Cleaner | 1 |
As outlined in the table above 104 staff left the Department during 2008, 2009 and 2010 for reasons other than the Incentivised Early Retirement Scheme (ISER), including for example, resignation, non - ISER retirements, transfer out under decentralisation, transfer out on promotion.
Net Savings arising from staff leaving over and above those recruited and promoted:
In 2008, expenditure in respect of the payment of salaries for the Department and its Offices was €57,492,000. In 2009, the expenditure in this regard was €58,599,000.
The increase in expenditure in 2009 was largely due to the full year cost of the T16 pay increase awarded with effect from 1 September 2008. Recruitment undertaken in 2008 also impacted on the full year costs in 2009.
As the majority of retirements under the Incentivised Scheme for Early Retirement were in the final quarter of 2009, the anticipated savings for the Department's pay expenditure will not be reflected until the end of 2010.
Similarly, Departmental pay savings to be made from the retirements under the ISER in 2010 will not materialise until the end of 2011.
The expenditure in respect of the payment of salaries for the Department and its Offices to the end of September 2010 is €38,142,000.
Staffing matters within the agencies under the aegis of my Department are a day to day matter for the agencies concerned provided they operate within the parameters of the Employment Control Framework and the moratorium on recruitment.
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