Written answers
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Public Sector Staff
8:00 pm
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Question 215: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full break down by sector, health, education, local authority and so on, of the numbers of employees currently in the public sector; and the way this compares to March 2009, the beginning of the moratorium on public sector recruitment. [36101/11]
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The breakdown of Public Service numbers by Sector for March 2009 and September 2011 is set out in the table. This data is available on my Department's Website.
| 2009 | 2011 | Variance | % Decrease | |
| Qtr1 | Qtr3 | |||
| Defence Sector | 11,169.00 | 10,168.60 | -1,000.4 | -9.0% |
| Education Sector | 95,253.24 | 90,577.81 | -4,675.4 | -4.9% |
| Health Sector | 111,769.97 | 104,286.88 | -7,483.1 | -6.7% |
| Civil Service * | 38,658.91 | 36,571.33 | -2,087.6 | -5.4% |
| Justice Sector | 15,664.00 | 14,477.23 | -1,186.8 | -7.6% |
| Local Authorities | 34,178.86 | 30,089.40 | -4,089.5 | -12.0% |
| NCSA TOTAL | 12,980.73 | 11,709.44 | -1,271.3 | -9.8% |
| Total | 319,674.71 | 297,880.69 | -21,794.0 | -6.8% |
*The full impact of 957 Community Welfare Officers moving from HSE to Department of Social Protection has been factored in during Q3 2011. The Total figure does not include Civil Servants who work for the Oireachtas, which is directly funded by the Central Fund and where the relevant staff numbers are projected to be 457 by end 2011.
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