Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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247. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the staffing complement of his Department in whole-time equivalents as at the end of 2016. [29605/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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There were 1,483 full time equivalent staff employed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade at the end of 2016. 836 full time equivalents were based in Ireland, 314 were assigned to one of Ireland’s missions overseas and the remainder, 333, were recruited locally to staff missions overseas.