Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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295. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to further resource park rangers nationally. [20421/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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My Department continues to work with the Public Appointments Service to appoint Conservation Rangers from a panel which was created in 2017. I am advised that in the last twelve months my Department has recruited twelve Conservation Rangers from this panel.

The staffing resources required to meet my Department’s business needs are assessed through the Department’s workforce planning process, having regard to emerging business priorities, the availability of payroll resources and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform directives, guidelines and circulars on staffing.