Written answers
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Department of Finance
Departmental Staff
5:00 pm
Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the numbers of staff employed in the public sector, by section, for end of 2008 to date in 2011, inclusive, in tabular form, with an estimate of which of these were temporary employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14069/11]
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The numbers of public servants employed on a Ministerial Vote Group basis and by functional classification for the period Q4 2008 to Q1 2011, as reported to the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform, is presented in the following tables. Information on the contractual arrangement in place across the public service is not reported to the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform and should be sought from the relevant Minster.
Table 1: Ministerial Vote Group
| 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |
| Qtr4 | Qtr4 | Qtr4 | Qtr1 | |
| Department | 320,387 | 310,747 | 305,859 | 303,903 |
| TAOISEACH GROUP (1) | 2,191 | 2,070 | 1,999 | 1,975 |
| FINANCE GROUP | 10,142 | 9,291 | 9,107 | 9,059 |
| JUSTICE GROUP (2) | 25,915 | 24,901 | 23,956 | 24,061 |
| ENVIRONMENT | 37,230 | 34,093 | 32,729 | 32,443 |
| EDUCATION GROUP (3) | 97,215 | 95,473 | 97,682 | 97,471 |
| COMMUNITY, EQUALITY & GAELTACHT AFFAIRS | 810 | 797 | 1,023 | 1,011 |
| FOREIGN AFFAIRS | 1,544 | 1,565 | 1,522 | 1,498 |
| COMMUNICATIONS ENERGY & NAT. RESOURCES | 1,069 | 1,043 | 1,267 | 1,249 |
| AGRICULTURE | 6,402 | 5,780 | 5,478 | 5,438 |
| TRANSPORT | 1,139 | 1,092 | 1,055 | 1,025 |
| HEALTH GROUP (4) | 113,218 | 111,952 | 109,898 | 107,593 |
| ENTERPRISE GROUP | 5,551 | 5,094 | 2,982 | 2,900 |
| TOURISM, CULTURE & SPORT | 1,480 | 1,393 | 1,364 | 1,277 |
| DEFENCE (5) | 11,667 | 11,111 | 10,667 | 10,792 |
| SOCIAL PROTECTION (4) | 4,816 | 5,091 | 5,130 | 6,109 |
(1)This includes civil servants who work for the Houses of the Oireachtas, which is directly funded by the central fund.
(2)The increase in Q1 2011 relates to a group of staff not previously included.
(3)Academic Researchers funded from various private and public funding programmes are not included in numbers shown
(4) The full impact of 957 Community Welfare Officers moving from HSE to Department of Social Protection has been factored into the Q1 2011 numbers
(5)The increase in Q1 2011 relates to an intake of recruits.
| Table 2 Functional Classification | ||||
| 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |
| Qtr4 | Qtr4 | Qtr4 | Qtr1 | |
| Civil Service | 37,421 | 35,670 | 34,825 | 35,587 |
| Defence Sector | 11,265 | 10,736 | 10,313 | 10,445 |
| Education Sector | 95,024 | 93,366 | 93,827 | 93,607 |
| Health Sector | 111,025 | 109,753 | 107,972 | 105,664 |
| Industrial CS | 1,892 | 1,687 | 1,614 | 1,622 |
| Justice Sector | 15,692 | 15,117 | 14,614 | 14,686 |
| Local Authorities | 35,008 | 32,044 | 30,703 | 30,416 |
| NCSA | 13,060 | 12,375 | 11,992 | 11,876 |
| Total | 320,387 | 310,747 | 305,859 | 303,903 |
Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance the numbers of staff employed in the public sector who have taken incentivised career breaks to date; if he intends to use this facility to reduce the public sector numbers in order that the jobs and personnel concerned are not lost to the public sector but savings in payroll costs are made for a period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14070/11]
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The information reported to the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform indicates that 1,080 civil and public servants availed of the incentivised career break in 2009. The Government is committed to reducing public service numbers by up to 25,000 by 2015, subject to there being no compulsory redundancies and to the protection of front line services. The measures necessary to give effect to these reductions are being developed by the Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform, taking account of the existing projections for staff numbers over the coming years and the role of incentivised career breaks will be examined in this context.
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