Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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261. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of temporary contracts in place for the public sector as a whole, including State agencies and other public bodies under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38828/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My Department gathers quarterly data on staff numbers in the local authority sector and in the State agencies under my Department’s remit. The most recent quarterly data on the numbers of temporary contract staff collected at the end of June 2014 on a whole time equivalent basis (WTE), was 1,320.91 WTE (local authority sector) and 19.5 WTE ( State agencies). My Department has two officers engaged on temporary contracts and arrangements are currently being finalised in relation to contract appointments in my office and the office of my colleague, Minister of State Coffey, under the normal arrangements for the staffing of such officers.

Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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262. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of contracts of indefinite duration that have been sought and the number that have been granted in the years 2007 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014 in the public sector under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38839/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My Department first collected information in relation to the numbers of staff entitled to contracts of indefinite duration in local authorities in 2008. The table sets out the information on a cumulative and a whole time equivalent basis (wte) and includes the most recent data available for 2014. The number of staff who sought contracts of indefinite duration is not collected by my Department.