Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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As part of Budget 2021 the Government allocated the Health and Safety Authority an additional pay contribution of €4.2 million. On foot of this additional budget, the HSA undertook an organisational review in 2021 to ensure that the future organisational structures, resources and ways of working would be fit for purpose to meet its broad mandates. This review gave rise to the recruitment of additional resources is being managed on a phased basis over 24 months that will bring the overall number of positions to 317 across both administrative and professional and technical grades.

As of the 30^thSeptember 2022, the HSA currently has 236 staff (231.1 FTE), as set out in the table below.

Grade	As at 30.09.2022
CEO	1
Assistant Chief Executive	4
Programme Manager/ Principal Officer	7
Physician	0
Inspector Grade I	20
Inspector Grade II	53
Inspector Grade III	65
AP/ AP Higher	11
HEO	28
EO	27
CO	19
Services Officer	1
Total Positions Filled	236
Vacant Positions	81

Following extensive recruitment throughout 2021 and 2022, the grades which currently include most vacancies are those at Grade II, Grade III, and Clerical Officer which currently have 12, 43, and 12 vacancies respectively.

The current HSA recruitment pipeline includes three large-volume campaigns which are programmed to fill these roles, with the Grade II competition recently closed, and the Grade III and Clerical Officer competitions due to go live in the coming weeks. It is anticipated that these competitions will lead to a large cohort of new staff joining the HSA from Q1 2023.