Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Brexit specific staff sanctioned by Department and State agency to date; the numbers now in place in each of those areas, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3510/18]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Managing our response to Brexit has impacted on the work of many staff at Headquarters and a significant number of those overseas. It is important to emphasise that our approach has not been merely to recruit or assign additional staff, but rather also to prioritise Brexit in the work of the entire Department. There is no State Agency under the aegis of my Department.Additional staff have been assigned to the key Divisions with responsibility for Brexit matters, the European Union Division and the Ireland, UK and Americas (IUKA) Division, to cover the issues arising from the UK exit process.For operational and service-oriented units like the Passport Office and Consular service, there has been a marked increase in demand for passports and citizenship via foreign birth registration from applicants in Northern Ireland and in Britain.

Many business units of my Department at headquarters in Dublin are involved in the response to the UK exit. For example the Legal Division, the Trade Division and the Policy Planning Unit. Further information on some of these positions are provided in the table below.

Overseas, additional posts have been assigned to our Embassies in London, Berlin, and Paris as well as the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the European Union in Brussels (PRB). Details are provided in the table below.

These measures remain under review. The Department will allocate additional staff resources as deemed necessary to further augment our level of support across Government and across our network.