Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 255: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons in his Department's redeployment pool, including agencies responsible to it, that is, those persons who are to be redeployed as their current role is no longer necessary, but have not been redeployed as of yet. [30482/12]

John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 257: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons employed in his Department and in agencies under his aegis that are in the redeployment pool; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30607/12]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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Question 259: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons within his Department or within agencies under his aegis that are awaiting redeployment; the maximum period of time that a person has been waiting for redeployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30824/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 255, 257 and 259 together.

Currently, my Department has two staff in the redeployment pool and there are no further staff waiting to be redeployed. Since the beginning of 2011, nineteen staff transferred out of my Department on redeployment. The maximum period of time that a staff member has been waiting for redeployment was approximately two months.

The Employment Control Framework (ECF) requires my Department to reduce staff numbers year on year until the end of 2015. At this point staff numbers in my Department are in line with targets set under the ECF programme and I am confident that the end of year target will be met.

As this is a day to day matter for the Agencies, I have asked the Agencies under the aegis of my Department to respond directly to the Deputies.