Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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944. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff who have retired or taken redundancy in each county council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20072/15]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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985. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of public servants under the aegis of his Department that retired in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21143/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 944 and 985 together.

In 2014, 688 employees retired from local authorities and ten employees retired from agencies under the auspices of my Department. 282 local authority employees availed of the voluntary redundancy scheme for local authorities in 2014. No staff from agencies under the auspices of my Department availed of voluntary redundancy in 2014. A breakdown of these figures is provided in the table.