Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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435. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently employed by his Department; the number assigned to the integration brief; the number of vacant positions currently under his Department's integration brief; the details of any changes to these numbers in each of the past four quarters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3315/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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There were 621 staff in my department at the end of December 2022.

There are a number of units involved in matters related to integration, including all of the units working on International Protection, the Irish Refugee Protection Program and related policy units.

As of 16 January, there are 17 vacancies across the units working directly or indirectly on integration matters. The changes in the staffing complement in each quarter over 2022 on the integration brief are set out in table below.

The Deputy will be aware that a Ukraine Division was established in 2022. However, staffing in that Division is not included in this response.