Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of additional new civil and public service positions the State is expected to create in 2022; the number of retirements in whole-time equivalent terms across the civil and public service who are expected to retire in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2486/22]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Revised Estimates for Public  Services (Rev 2022), published on 15 December 2021, sets out for each Vote the numbers of civil  and public service employees at end-year in full-time equivalent terms (FTE). The aggregate amount included in the REV in respect of 2022 is a total of 380,492 (FTE) with a total of 366,264 (FTE) for 2021. The 2022 position represents an increase of 14,228 or 3.9% on 2021. Compared to the end of quarter 3 in 2021, the most recent quarter for which data on actual numbers of FTE by Vote is available, the end-2022 position represents an increase of just over 4½%.

The planned increase in numbers employed across the Civil and Public Service in 2022 reflects budgetary decisions to provide for additional staff in sectors including Education, Further and Higher Education, Health, and Justice to support the delivery of public services and key Government priorities. 

My Department  is responsible for the civil service pension schemes, which cover personnel in established and unestablished  civil service and State Industrial posts. The expected number of retirements from the Civil Service over 2022 is 1,550.

There are a large number of pension schemes operating in the various sectors of the Irish public service. It would be a matter for those sectoral authorities, including Ministers, to supply such information as may be available in respect of the expected number of retirees in each year from those individual pension schemes.