Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 24 January 2023, the number of persons employed in the Ukraine Division of his Department in each of the quarters since it was established in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4655/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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Due to the emergency nature of the war in Ukraine and the sudden influx into Ireland of people fleeing Ukraine, the Department established a new division. This was initially resourced by the internal re-deployment of staff and staff that were assigned temporarily from other Departments. Given the uncertain nature of the situation initially and the significant amount of movement of staff between units in the department and from other departments, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the numbers in the division for each quarter in 2022.

To bring stability to the resourcing of the Division, the area is now also staffed by more permanent re-assignments of staff, new recruits and secondments. The number of staff working in Ukraine Division was 135 in Quarter 4. This includes staff recruited from the Public Appointments Service, staff internally reassigned from within my Department, Ukrainian Temporary Clerical Officers and staff on secondment or temporary assignment from other departments/bodies.