Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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327. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff in the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in each of the years since it was established and to date in 2018, by account, administrative staff, legal personnel, gardaí and other staff, in tabular form; the amount of funding allocated to the office in each of the years 2010 to 2017; the allocation for 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18071/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table.

No. of staff ¹serving in the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) (2001-2018) 

¹Refers to number of people not FTE’s (i.e. not Full Time Equivalents where 2 people working a week on, week off pattern would equal 1 FTE)

² Staffing as at 23^rdApril 2018

³ The ODCE also has an approved complement of seven members of An Garda Siochana (one Detective Inspector, two Detective Sergeants and four Detective Gardai).

Following his appointment, the current Director undertook a review of the structure of the ODCE, together with the staffing and skills mix available to him. That review identified, in particular, a significant skills deficit in the area of accountancy expertise.  Following that review, the Director sought, and was granted, sanction to recruit a cohort of new accountants.  Following engagement between my Department, the Director and the Public Appointments Service, six accountants were recruited and a further two have been selected and are about to be appointed.  The Department also recruited a digital forensics specialist, who was assigned to the ODCE. My Department is working with PAS and the Director towards the filling of two vacancies for Enforcement Lawyers and a recruitment campaign to fill these vacancies with suitably qualified and experienced candidates is well underway.

Finally, as regards the “key job specifications” of the staff, these would have changed from time-to-time as the Director of the Office determined in the normal, routine, management of business in the Office and in that regard an organisation chart is included in each of the ODCE’s Annual Reports since its inception, which are published on its websitewww.odce.ie and which would provide relevant information for the Deputy.

Funding allocation for the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) in respect of the years 2010 to 2018 is set out in the following table.