Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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187. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE vacancies currently within his Department and that are normally filled by staff at the grade of administrative officer and above, as of 7 December 2023, in tabular form. [55603/23]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is committed to ensuring that a skilled and motivated workforce is in place to meet its priority business needs. Workforce planning processes are utilised to identify our requirements across all our grade streams and locations, aiming to ensure a long-term, proactive and strategic plan by which current and future staffing needs are addressed. Recruitment is currently under way in the Department and posts continue to be advertised by either the Public Appointments Service (PAS) or by my Department’s Human Resources Division.

As business needs arise, staff are allocated to support organisational priorities within my Department. Overall staffing levels and required skills are continually monitored to ensure business needs are met, subject to the limits of the annual estimates process, the usual budgetary constrains and approvals by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan, Delivery and Reform.

The table below provides further details on the numbers of vacancies currently within the Department that are normally filled by staff at the grade of Administrative Officer (or equivalent) and above as of 7th December, as requested by the Deputy.