Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have left the public service in her Department in each of the past five years to date, either by way of natural retirement or redundancy; the extent to which the national pay bill has been affected as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13622/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The table provides details on the number of persons who have left the Department of Justice and Equality during the period May 2011 to May 2016. These numbers take account of people who have left my Department for a variety of reasons including, amongst others, retirement and by way of incentivised early retirement schemes.

As indicated in response to previous Parliamentary Questions, the reduction in the size of the public service contributed to a saving of more than €3 billion in the cost of the public service between 2009 and 2013. Further analysis of how the public service pay bill has been reduced during this period can be found in the report The Cost of the Public Service, which can be found on the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service website, available at: .