Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the ratio of men and women at each Civil Service grade in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31694/18]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department is committed to advancing gender equality and ensuring that women are represented fully in our teams at home and abroad. Our Missions abroad, and our senior management structures at home, need to be representative of the people of Ireland and better gender balance will help us achieve one element of that ambition.

My Department has an active Management Board Gender Equality Sub-Committee, which feeds into Management Board deliberations as well as two working groups focusing on gender equality and diversity issues. The work that we are doing, through our Gender Equality Action Plan, is complemented by the wider work on gender being driven through the Civil Service Renewal Process.

The percentages of men and women at each civil service grade within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade at 30 June 2018 are detailed in the following table: