Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff employed in the Health Service Executive; the way that compares with the numbers employed in March 2008 before the moratorium on recruitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13409/11]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Employment Control Frameworks (ECFs) have been used for a number of years in the health sector to control numbers employed in line with Government policy. The current ECF provides for the moratorium on recruitment (introduced in March 2009) in order to achieve the reduction targets specified in the frameworks. However, it also provides for targeted growth in a number of specified grades to allow key front line services to be maintained, insofar as possible, and to support the development of services in relation to disability, mental health, cancer and child care. These exemptions are subject to certain conditions being met by the HSE and employers concerned.

The table sets out the numbers employed in the public health service before and after the introduction of the moratorium on recruitment in March 2009.