Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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30. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reduction in the number of persons employed directly and indirectly as a result of Government cuts to the funds channelled through her Department in the past five years. [19861/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I am advised that over the course of the period, June 2011 to end December 2014, my Department was required to reduce numbers under the Employment Control Framework limits for Civil Servant and Public Servant numbers set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. There was also a moratorium on staff recruitment over this period.

The number of staff employed by my Department, and the bodies under its aegis, from its establishment in June 2011 to 31 March 2016 are outlined in the following table.

Arising from the additional Departmental responsibilities announced by An Taoiseach on 6 May 2016, my Department has recently increased in size. The number of staff currently employed in my Department is 607.