Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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638. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff working in her human resources section. [15443/16]

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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640. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the changes in the numbers employed in her human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15475/16]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 638 and 640 together.

The Human Resources Unit of my Department has 11.23 whole-time equivalent staff assigned to it and has responsibility for managing the internal HR corporate function, including organisational design, workforce planning and learning & development. The HR Unit also has an external governance and oversight role relating to the agencies under its aegis with regard to public sector HR policies and procedures. The establishment of Tusla - the Child and Family Agency in 2014 has seen the external focus of the Unit change in scale i.e. from 327 whole time equivalent public servants at the end of 2013 to over 3,842 at end March 2016.

The Department has 164 whole-time equivalents directly employed by it at present. During 2013, Peoplepoint took over responsibility for many of the day to day transactional HR activities related to direct employees. This has led to a reduction of one whole-time equivalent assigned to managing internal operational related HR activities.