Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 283: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff employed within her Department expressed as whole time equivalents as returned to her Department for the end of 2008, 2009, 2010, and figures available for 2011 in tabular form. [37488/11]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Details of the number of staff, expressed as whole time equivalents, employed in the Department at the end of 2008, 2009, 2010 and the latest available in respect of 2011 are as shown in the table below. The overall staffing numbers have increased to deal with the unprecedented increase in the number of jobseeker claims and the Department's business generally. The additional posts have been filled by way of staff redeployment or transfer from other government departments and transfers from within the Department. Also the figure for 2011 reflects the 997 posts that transferred to my Department to date, as part of the transfer of the Community Welfare Service from the Health Service Executive.