Written answers

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Department of Justice and Equality

Probation and Welfare Service Staff

Photo of Mick WallaceMick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time probation officers employed in each individual prison from 2012 to 2016 and currently employed in each individual prison; if there has been a reduction in staffing levels in terms of probation officers between 2010 and 2016; and the number of prisons that currently only have one part-time probation officer. [7294/17]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy may be aware, the Probation Service is structured into 7 operational regions, 5 geographical regions and 2 national regions. The Prisoner, Risk and Resettlement Region is the operational region that covers probation work in all prisons nationwide.

In 2010, there were 37 staff (Probation Officers and Senior Probation Officers) in the Prisoner, Risk and Resettlement Region. The staffing levels for the Region from 2012 to 2016 are set out in the following table. The Probation Service is currently appointing Probation Officers from a competition held in 2016 to fill a number of vacancies throughout the Probation Service. Three new Probation Officers have been appointed to the Region since 1 January 2017, bringing the current staffing level for this Region to 38 staff members (Probation Officers and Senior Probation Officers).

End of YearTotal Probation Officers*

(*including Senior Probation Officers)
201239
201339
201439
201540
201635
2017 (to date)38

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