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Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Departmental Staff Grades

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the breakdown of staff in the Department of the Marine under the titles, total staff numbers; staff positions; locations of staff for the Department, numbers within each location, along with potential forecasts of staff numbers in the medium future and where they might be found within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58198/12]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Provisional figures for the end of 2012 show the number of staff in my Department to be 3,276 full-time equivalents (FTEs) who are deployed across a number of grade streams, as indicated in Table 1 below:

Table 1: DAFM Staff by Grade Stream
Grade StreamEnd-2012 FTE
Administrative1,719
Technical709
Veterinary273
Laboratory194
Inspectorate188
Other131
Industrial62

My Department has a staffing presence in some 200 locations predominantly in over 70 meat factories countrywide. The greatest concentration of staff occurs in headquarter locations in Dublin, Backweston, Portlaoise, Johnstown Castle, Cavan and Clonakilty. A further cohort is employed in the Department’s network of Regional Offices (16) and Laboratories (9). A breakdown of staff numbers in these major areas is as in Table 2 below:

Table 2: Staff numbers in particular areas in DAFM
AREAFTE
Dublin (Agriculture House)490
Backweston (including Lab. complex)376
Portlaoise436
Johnstown Castle (Wexford)236
Cavan141
Clonakilty84
Regional Office Network726
Factory locations237
Laboratories (excluding Backweston)118

Maximum staffing levels for each Government Department/Office are determined annually by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the context of the Employment Control Framework (ECF). The mid-2014 ECF ceiling for my Department is 3,107 FTE. DAFM is actively re-organising and restructuring in order to deploy its workforce effectively across all Programmes to maintain current high levels of service delivery against this background of future significant staffing reductions.

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