Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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619. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff working in the National Parks and Wildlife Service as of 1 January 2017, 1 January 2018 and 1 January 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3921/19]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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I am advised that the number of staff working in the National Parks and Wildlife Service in my Department on the dates in question are as follows:

I understand that my Department will recruit additional specialist and operational roles for the NPWS in 2019 which will include District Conservation Officers, Wildlife Inspectors, Conservation Rangers and Ecologists.