Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the names of all companies supplying private security and cleaning services in his Department, including the cost of private cleaning in his Department, the cost of private security in his Department; the number of private cleaners supplied to his Department to provide these duties as part of these contracts, and the number of private security personnel supplied to his Department on foot of these contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59730/22]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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My Department and its Offices, which includes the Companies Registration Office (CRO), the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland (IPOI), the Labour Court and the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), are tenants in ten buildings across the country provided by the Office of Public Works who manage the public property portfolio on behalf of Departments.

Currently the Department directly employs 29 Service staff across these buildings whose facilities management responsibilities include security related functions in the areas occupied by the Department and its Offices. The Service staff grades cover Head Service Officer, Deputy Head Service Officer, Service Officer and Service Attendant.

The Department currently directly employs 11 Cleaning staff to undertake cleaning duties across the buildings at 23 Kildare Street, Dublin 2; Block C, Earlsfort Centre, Dublin 2 and 59 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

The Department does not have any contracts in place with any external private security or cleaning companies. The Department does liaise closely with An Garda Síochána on security related matters on a regular basis.

In the other seven locations occupied by the Offices, each shares buildings and office accommodation with other tenants. These include other Departments, public bodies and private sector companies. The local facilities management arrangements, including cleaning and any additional security arrangements beyond those provided by our Service staff, are undertaken on a shared basis in conjunction with the other tenants and in some cases with local building maintenance companies and relevant landlord(s).

In the short time available to answer the Deputy's question it has not been possible to collate all of the relevant information from the Offices given the different variables involved across the various locations. I will arrange for the provision of this information to the Deputy as soon as possible over the coming days.