Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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116. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of civil servants in her Department by grade who are specifically allocated to work in the economic migration policy unit (details supplied). [46373/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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There are three staff in the Economic Migration Policy Unit of my Department, comprising of 1 Assistant Principal, 1 Higher Executive Officer and 0.6 Executive Officer. This team has responsibility for economic migration policy, which is the framework within which the State’s employment permit system operates.

Their key responsibilities include coordinating the implementation of the recommendations of the recently published review of economic migration policy, and the twice-yearly review of the occupation lists for employment permit purposes.

Employment Permit Section is responsible for the operational management of the employment permit system, and is supported by a staff complement of 33.1 (FTE) as follows:

* There are currently 2 TCOs assigned to Employment Permits Section, pending the appointment of 2 full-time Clerical Officers, which my Department is in the process of recruiting from the Public Appointments Service.