Written answers

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Departmental Agencies Staff Data

Photo of Niall CollinsNiall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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347. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of staff in the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement for each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017, divided by account, administrative staff, legal personnel and other staff, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5168/17]

Photo of Mary Mitchell O'ConnorMary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the following table:

No. of staff* serving in the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) (2010-2017)

GRADE2010201120122013201420152016
Director1111111
Corporate Compliance Manager1111110
Legal Adviser3333332
Principal Solicitor1111111
Principal Officer2211111
Professional Accountant Grade 12221105
Solicitor2222211
Assistant Principal Officer4444333
Higher Executive Officer111299888
Executive Officer8766665
Clerical Officer8788888
Total43423837353335
Gardaí**1010108765
* Refers to number of people not FTE’s (Full-Time Equivalents)

** A staff complement of 7 Gardaí are assigned to the ODCE to assist with its criminal investigation/prosecution functions. Additional resources were assigned to the Office in the period 2010-2013 to assist in the Anglo Irish Bank investigation.

Following his appointment, the current Director undertook a review of the structure of the ODCE, together with the staffing and skills mix available to him. That review identified, in particular, a significant skills deficit in the area of accountancy expertise. Following that review, the Director sought, and was granted, sanction to recruit a cohort of new accountants. Following engagement between my Department, the Director and the Public Appointments Service, five accountants have been recruited and the process of recruiting a further two is in progress. More recently, the Director has sought, and has received, sanction to recruit a digital forensics specialist. My Department is currently working with the Director and the Public Appointments Service to fill that position. In addition, and due to a combination of retirement, promotion and transfer, three senior enforcement positions are currently vacant. My Department is working with the Director towards the filling of those vacancies with suitably qualified and experienced candidates.

The ODCE also has an approved complement of seven members of An Garda Síochána (one Detective Inspector, two Detective Sergeants and four Detective gardaí). The Detective Inspector retired some months ago, there is a retirement related vacancy at Detective Garda level and one of the two Detective Sergeants is retiring in the coming weeks. The Director has requested the Commissioner to fill the two more senior of these vacancies as a matter of urgency.

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