Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the ratio of men and women at each civil service grade within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31686/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Staffing resources are an ongoing priority to ensure my Department’s continued ability to facilitate the wide mission and volume of work in a range of challenging policy areas. This will continue with ongoing day-to-day review of the appropriate staffing mix across my Department in response to known and probable priority areas.

My Department liaises directly with the Public Appointments Service (PAS) and Top-Level Appointments Committee (TLAC) in relation to the filling of posts.

The Secretary General of my Department is one of four Secretaries General leading the delivery of Action 8.5 of the Civil Service Renewal Plan – “To improve gender balance at each level by reviewing supports and policies to ensure these measures are impactful and measurable”.

In the Civil Service we want to ensure women are in senior roles so they can shape policy and we have set targets to make this happen; 50/50 gender balance in appointments at senior levels.

My Department operates an equal opportunity policy to ensure women and men are assigned equal share of high visibility positions across the Department and its Offices.  The Department operates a best fit for the job policy.

The ratio of Male to Female at each civil service grade within my Department is set out in the following table.