Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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241. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons employed by his Department; and the collective total salary received by employees of his Department. [24444/21]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that at 31 December 2020, the Full Time Equivalent (FTE) of staff employed in the Department of Finance was 312.18. The most recent figure available is at 30 April 2021, when there was an FTE of 323.13 staff.

In 2020, €19,361,238 was spent on employee salaries, and is inclusive of PRSI, allowance, and overtime costs. This represented 94% of the budgeted provision for employee salaries and related pay costs of €20,610,000.

For 2021, the Department has a budgeted provision for employee salaries of €20,903,000, inclusive of PRSI, allowance, and overtime costs.