Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff employed directly in his Department in 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010; if he will provide details regarding the numbers in each civil service grade for the same years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8090/11]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context

The table below contains details of the numbers of staff by grade in my Department in December 2002, December 2005 and December 2010. The figures include officers from other Government Departments serving in our missions abroad, most notably Ireland's Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels, and exclude approximately 300 locally-engaged staff. Similar information for the period prior to the introduction of the central Human Resources Management System by the Department of Finance in December 2002 is not readily available.

Increases in my Department's staffing complement since 2002 are largely attributable to the:

recruitment of additional staff for the Passport Service to enable it to cope with annual increases in the demand for passports;

expansion of the Irish Aid overseas development programme.

I should also inform the Deputy that the Department of Foreign Affairs is obliged to shed a total of 177 posts over the period March 2009 to end December 2014 under the Government's current Employment Control Framework.

*The details for these years are not readily available.