Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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370. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department working on climate change policy in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26730/14]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The table indicates approved staff numbers assigned to the Climate Policy Section of my Department. Staff numbers were supplemented by three interns in the run-up to, and during, Ireland’s Presidency of the European Union in 2013. There is currently one vacancy in the section.