Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff employed within his Department expressed as whole time equivalents as returned to his Department for the end of 2008, 2009 and 2010, and figures available for 2011, in tabular form. [37483/11]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table that follows this reply. There has been a substantial reduction in staff numbers in my Department, arising mainly from retirements, with some posts left unfilled because of restrictions on recruitment necessitated by the current budgetary pressures.