Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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174. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the rank of each member of An Garda Síochána assigned to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement; the number and rank of vacant Garda positions at the ODCE; and the date at which the vacancy arose. [7933/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement has an approved complement of 7 members of An Garda Síochána.  This is comprised of one Detective Inspector, two Detective Sergeants and four Detective Gardaí.  There are no vacancies at present.

Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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175. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of months in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018 the position of detective inspector assigned to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement was vacant. [7934/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Director of Corporate Enforcement engages directly with An Garda Síochána regarding Garda resourcing of the ODCE.

A vacancy arose in respect of a Detective Inspector post on 30 September 2016. It was filled on 27 November 2017. The role has been filled on an interim full-time basis since then. I understand that this post is among a number of Detective Inspector posts which are the subject of an internal Garda Síochána promotions competition, which is expected to conclude in the coming months. Following this, a full-time Detective Inspector will be assigned to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, on a permanent basis.

In terms of the number of months in each of the years in question that the position was vacant, these are as follows:

2016 - 3 months

2017 - 11 months

2018 - Nil.