Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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186. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of recruitment under the aegis of his Department to the public sector since the partial lifting of the embargo on recruitment; if he will compare current figures across each sector of the public sector with the figures before the embargo was introduced; and, in view of the recent spring statement, if he will lift the embargo altogether, and allow staff to be replaced. [17859/15]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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As I announced in the Budget, the Moratorium is being replaced in 2015 with a framework which will delegate to Government Departments sanction for management of staff numbers, subject to remaining within binding overall pay ceilings, and other controls. Sanction has already been delegated to a number of Departments, including my own, and negotiations are ongoing with others, with a view to having the agreements in place as soon as practicable.  

Tables 1 and 2 set out the recruitment to my Department and those bodies under my aegis since the sanction was issued. 

Table 3 sets out the Public Service staffing levels, by sector, at the end of 2014 (which are the latest fully reconciled figures) and the comparable figures at the end of the first quarter of 2009, when the Moratorium was introduced.  The end 2014 figures will not reflect the recruitment under the new delegated arrangements.

Further details on Public Service numbers is available on my Department's Databank website at .  

Table 1 - Recruitment figures for 2015 for Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Table 2 - Recruitment figures for 2015 for bodies under the aegis of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform 

Table 3Public Service Numbers 2009 and 2014