Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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523. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated full-year cost of recruiting 16 extra ecologists for the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20808/19]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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I am advised that, based on current pay levels, the estimated cost of recruiting an additional 16 full-time Ecologists for the National Parks and Wildlife Service would be €550,081 per annum.