Written answers
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
Election Management System
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 431 of 20 November 2012 and 691 of 6 November 2012, if he will provide the total number of the persons employed in the following roles in the Children's Referendum who were immediately previously unemployed or on the live register, Special Presiding Officers, Presiding Officers, Supervisory Presiding Officers and Area Inspectors, Poll Clerks, Count Supervisors, Count Calculators and Counters. [11343/13]
Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Based on information provided to my Department by Returning Officers for 35 out of 43 constituencies, the total number of staff employed at the referendum in November 2012 was 11,654, of which 28.6% were unemployed. The details for the 35 constituencies are set out in the following table.
Positions | Total number of staff employed | Number of ‘unemployed’ persons employed | ‘unemployed’ persons as a % of the total |
---|---|---|---|
Poll Clerks | 4,524 | 1,780 | 39.35 |
Presiding Officers | 4,527 | 1,120 | 24.74 |
Supervisory Presiding Officers | 352 | 33 | 9.38 |
Special Presiding Officers | 124 | 10 | 8.06 |
Emergency Presiding Officers | 23 | 3 | 13.04 |
Count Supervisor | 186 | 14 | 7.53 |
Calculator | 110 | 6 | 5.45 |
Counter | 1,603 | 321 | 20.02 |
Other Staff | 205 | 41 | 20.00 |
Total | 11,654 | 3,328 | 28.56 |
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