Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)
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622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost to recruit and pay an annual salary to a single welfare officer. [25911/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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A community welfare officer is at Higher Executive Officer (HEO) civil service grade. The cost of the annual rate of the entry point of the HEO payscale is €58,264.

Recruitment of HEOs is carried out via large-scale recruitment competitions both internally and via PublicJobs and therefore the cost of recruiting a single community welfare officer is not available.