Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full-time equivalent and part-time equivalent roles filled by her Department of posts at principal officer, assistant principal officer, higher executive officer, executive officer and clerical officer grades for the past five years; the cost to the Exchequer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35482/20]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the deputy on roles filled by my department in the past five years is below. There has been a significant amount of staffing change in the last number of years and the majority of the roles filled below are backfill of vacancies which arose where staff left on retirements, promotions or transfers.

With regard to the cost to the Exchequer, my department has provided a table below of the current salary mid-point for each scale requested. The mid-point is provided as not every new entrant to the department starts on point one of the scale, in particular where they have come to the department on mobility and are already established in their grade. Furthermore, as the majority of the posts filled were backfill where vacancies arose, in this instance there may not be a cost to the Exchequer. Please note that 134 approximately of the overall staffing of the Department of Education will be transferring to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in the coming weeks.