Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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748. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of technical staff grades of technical agricultural officer supervisory agricultural officer and district superintendent that retired or transferred out from agricultural environmental schemes division in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [16515/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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The table below provides details on the numbers of technical grades that retired/transferred out from the Agricultural Environmental Schemes Division in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 as requested by the Deputy.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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749. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of technical grade positions for all the grades (technical agricultural officer, supervisory agricultural officer and district superintendent) that have been advertised and subsequently filled for each of these grades; and the number of positions that are currently vacant in the agricultural environmental schemes division and the location of these vacancies, per county. [16516/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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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 technical grade streams and locations, and to ensure a long-term, proactive and strategic plan through which current and future staffing needs are addressed.

Overall staffing levels and required skills are continually monitored to ensure business needs are met, subject to the limits of the annual estimates process and approvals by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.

My Department regularly advertises and fills positions across multiple grade streams, including the grades of Technical Agricultural Officer, Supervisory Agricultural Officer and District Superintendent as specifically referenced by the Deputy. The filling of posts in these grades is evident in the number of officers currently assigned to said roles, with the table below providing additional details: