Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of vacant positions in the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement; and the length of time each position has been empty. [5552/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Details of the vacancies on positions within the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) are set out below in tabular form.

Over recent years, a number of senior-level vacancies have arisen within the ODCE through a combination of retirement, promotion and transfer to other parts of the public service. In that context, the skill sets, competencies, roles and responsibilities associated with each of those posts have been reviewed and reconfigured by the Director to better reflect the organisation’s current needs. That exercise has resulted in two senior-level professional posts of Enforcement Portfolio Manager being created, both of these posts have been recently filled. In the same context, the Department is currently engaging with the Public Appointments Service to fill, through open competition, two currently vacant Forensic Accountant positions as well as a reconfigured senior role of Enforcement Lawyer.

The recruitment campaign for the positions of Enforcement Lawyer and Forensic Accountant (Professional Accountant Grade 1) were advertised on 26/1/2018 with a closing date for applications of 15/2/2018. It is planned that appointments to these posts will be made in May 2018. It is worth noting that this is the third recruitment campaign for Forensic Accountant.

One Higher Executive Officer and one Clerical Officer post have recently become vacant due to retirement and these posts are in the process of being filled. The post of Higher Executive Officer will be filled today, Tuesday 6th February 2018. The Clerical Officer post will be filled in approximately two weeks.

Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff employed by the ODCE at the beginning of 2018; and the number of gardaí assigned to the ODCE. [5553/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The total number of staff employed by the ODCE at the beginning of 2018 was 35 (32.5 full time equivalent). The breakdown by grade is set out in Tabular form below.

The number of Gardaí assigned to the ODCE is 7.