Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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342. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15449/16]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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The Human Resources Unit in my Department is split into two sections: HR1 deals with all matters relating to staff working in the Department’s offices in Ireland; HR2 deals with all matters relating to HQ staff posted to our Missions abroad and also locally-employed staff working in those Missions (80 overseas missions in total).

A small number of staff in the Department’s Development Cooperation Division (DCD) deal with HR matters for HQ staff posted to our Irish Aid key partner countries and also local staff working in those missions.

A total of 27 officers work on HR matters in my Department; 12 in HR1 of which half are availing of flexible working arrangements, 11 in HR2, and 4 in DCD-HR.