Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE superintending veterinary inspector and senior superintending veterinary inspectors employed by his Department as of 10 September 2025; if he will provide the same figures as of 30 September 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49807/25]

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 our grade streams and locations, aiming to ensure a long-term, proactive and strategic plan by which current and future staffing needs are addressed.

The table below outlines the number of WTE superintending veterinary inspector and senior superintending veterinary inspectors employed by the Department as of the 30th of September 2022 and the 14th of September 2025 (data extract date inclusive of requested date of 10/9/2025).