Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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181. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the employees employed in the Brexit unit of her Department by category. [28172/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The work of very many Business Units is impacted by Brexit and the Department as a whole has prioritised the Brexit challenges in its work plans for 2017 across all of its Divisions.

A dedicated Brexit Unit was established in 2016 and is led at Assistant Secretary level within the EU Affairs, Trade Policy and Safety and Chemicals Policy Division, to coordinate and represent the Departmental and Agencies response to Brexit and to support me in my position at the Cabinet Committee on Brexit. The Unit is currently made up of 1 Principal, 1 Assistant Principal, 1 Higher Executive Officer and 1 Clerical Officer. Additional staffing resources are being recruited to support the Brexit Unit, and other areas of the Department impacted by Brexit in the immediate period ahead.