Written answers
Monday, 8 September 2025
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Civil Service
Barry Heneghan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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648. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of clerical officer applicants that are fluent in Irish currently on a panel arising from the most recent civil service recruitment campaign; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46908/25]
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Public Appointments Service (publicjobs), the centralised provider of recruitment and selection services for the Civil and Public Service and a body under the aegis of my Department, that the most recent Clerical Officer in the Civil Service (Fluent Irish) campaign was launched in April 2025.
Of 99 applicants, 60 attended interview and 54 were successful and placed on panels across Galway, Dublin and Limerick. These candidates will be assigned to roles in order of merit as vacancies arise.
Sinéad Gibney (Dublin Rathdown, Social Democrats)
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649. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of all of the professional and technical grades in the civil service in which there are currently people employed, including any grades currently temporarily vacant; and the numbers in each grade, in tabular form. [46928/25]
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The data in the table below sets out the total number of Civil Servants at the end of June 2025 by general service grade group and includes Irish Prison Service staff and professional and technical grades. These figures are represented in full-time equivalent terms and are the most recent figures currently available to my Department.
| Grade Group | End June 2025 |
|---|---|
Grade Group | End June 2025 |
| Secretary General | 37 |
| Deputy Secretary | 21 |
| Assistant Secretary | 271 |
| Principal Officer | 2,068 |
| Assistant Principal | 6,958 |
| Higher Executive Officer | 7,308 |
| Administrative Officer | 3,803 |
| Executive Officer | 11,265 |
| Staff Officer | 2,311 |
| Clerical Officer | 13,896 |
| Temporary Clerical Officer | 1,503 |
| Services Officer | 826 |
| Other | 276 |
| Total | 50,543 |
The table below sets out numbers (FTE) of professional and technical grades that are common to two or more Departments or Offices. These are the grades that are set out in the appendices of Civil Service pay adjustment circulars which are available on my Department’s website. A centralised list of all grades in the civil service is maintained, however a definitive categorisation of all professional and technical grades that are in place in only one organisation is not collated centrally.
| P&T Grades Common to two or more Departments | End June 2025 |
|---|---|
| P&T Grades Common to two or more Departments | End June 2025 |
| ARCHITECT - PPC (64097) | 66.00 |
| ARCHITECT (4097) | 1.00 |
| ARCHITECTURAL ASST GRADE 2 - PPC (67310) | 10.00 |
| CHIEF SUPERINT MAPPING (3185) | 1.00 |
| ENGINEER GRADE 1 CIVIL - PPC (62115) | 91.60 |
| ENGINEER GRADE 1 CIVIL (2115) | 6.00 |
| ENGINEER GRADE 2 CIVIL - PPC (63085) | 122.50 |
| ENGINEER GRADE 2 CIVIL (3085) | 3.00 |
| ENGINEER GRADE 3 CIVIL | 1.80 |
| ENGINEER GRADE 3 CIVIL PPC | 67.30 |
| EXAMINER IN CHARGE (7050) | 1.00 |
| HIGHER LEGAL EXECUTIVE (5032) | 5.10 |
| HIGHER LEGAL EXECUTIVE PPC (65032) | 20.93 |
| LABORATORY ANALYST - PPC (67322) | 153.45 |
| LABORATORY ANALYST (7322) | 9.80 |
| LAW CLERK - PPC (67380) | 0.80 |
| LAW CLERK (7380) | 1.53 |
| LEGAL EXECUTIVE (6498) | 2.00 |
| LEGAL EXECUTIVE PPC (66498) | 11.80 |
| NIGHTWATCHMAN - PPC (68438) | 7.00 |
| PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT GRADE 1 | 7.00 |
| PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT GRADE 1 PPC | 91.90 |
| PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT GRADE 2 | 3.00 |
| PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT GRADE 2 PPC | 64.55 |
| PROSECUTION SOLICITOR (AP1) - PPC (61462) | 1.00 |
| PROSECUTION SOLICITOR PPC (64016) | 72.40 |
| SENIOR ARCHITECT - PPC (62095) | 70.30 |
| SENIOR ARCHITECT (2095) | 1.00 |
| SENIOR LABORATORY ANALYST - PPC (67000) | 49.93 |
| SENIOR LABORATORY ANALYST (7000) | 7.80 |
| STATE SOLICITOR (4015) | 2.00 |
| STATE SOLICITOR HIGHER PPC (61461) | 66.50 |
| STATE SOLICITOR PPC (64015) | 117.10 |
| SUPERINTENDENT MAPPING - PPC (66185) | 3.70 |
My Department does not maintain a central record of staff vacancies. Delegated sanction was introduced by Government in 2015 to provide Offices and Departments with flexibility to manage identified business needs subject to remaining within overall pay ceilings.
Delegated sanction allows Departments to fill vacancies through recruitment or promotion in designated grades up to and including Principal Officer (PO) standard or equivalent. In October 2024, the policy was revised to extend this flexibility to previously sanctioned posts at Principal Officer higher level, equivalent grades, and Assistant Secretary level—on the condition that there is no change to the job specification or the terms and conditions of the post.
Any new posts at these levels, or changes to the job specification or terms and conditions of previously sanctioned posts, continue to require the prior, explicit approval of the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure Public Service Reform and Digitalisation.
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