Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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385. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff working in her human resources section. [15442/16]

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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386. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for her. [15458/16]

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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387. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the changes in the numbers employed in her human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15474/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 385 to 387, inclusive, together.

The guidelines issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to the staffing of Ministerial Offices provide that the number of staff in a Minister’s Constituency Office may not exceed four, including a Personal Secretary and a Personal Assistant in cases where a Minister appoints people in those roles. In line with these guidelines, there are two members of staff in my Department working on constituency matters.

I am advised that 13 members of staff work in my Department's Human Resource section. As the PeoplePoint shared service will not commence providing HR services to my Department until later this year, the question of adjusting the numbers of staff in my Department's Human Resource section has not yet arisen.