asked the Minister for Finance if he will state (a) the total number of civil servants, including temporary civil servants employed by the State on 1st January, 1932; 1st January, 1939; 1st January, 1941, and 1st January, 1942, respectively; (b) the total amount of salaries, wages and allowances paid to civil servants in the financial years ended March 31st, 1932; March 31st, 1939, and March 31st, 1941, respectively, and (c) the total amount paid by the State in travelling and incidental expenses to civil servants, including those temporarily employed on special schemes in the financial years ending March 31st, 1931, 1939, and 1941, respectively.
Written Answers. - The Civil Service.
Information in the form requested by the Deputy is not available and could only be ascertained at expense and trouble which in present circumstances would not be warranted. The information asked for so far as available is as follows:—
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1/1/1932 |
2/1/1939 |
1/1/1941 |
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(a) Numbers |
21,793 |
26,775 |
27,400 |
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(b) Annual Cost in respect of Salaries, wages and allowances |
£3,819,542 |
£5,065,117 |
£5,480,785 |
Corresponding particulars as on 1st January, 1942, will not in accordance with normal arrangements be furnished by Departments for some months.
In order to make the figures given in the above statement for the 1st January, 1932, comparable with those for the two other dates mentioned a total of 792 persons, some of whom were employed on a taskwork, piecework or fee basis, and some of whom were employed on works of a temporary nature are not included in the particulars for the 1st January, 1932.
asked the Minister for Finance if he will state (1) the number of civil servants employed on the 1st January, 1932, 1939, 1941 and 1942, in the following grades: (a) Secretaries of Departments, Chairmen of Boards of Commissioners and heads of Departments of State; (b) Assistant Secretaries, (c) Principal Officers, (d) Assistant Principal Officers, (e) Junior Administrative Officers, (f) Higher Executive Officers, (g) Junior Executive Officers, (h) Staff Officers on scales proceeding to £450 and over, and (2) the amounts paid in salaries, wages and allowances and travelling and incidental expenses, to civil servants, temporary or permanent, in each of these grades during the financial years ending 31st March, 1932, 1939, and 1941.
The information asked for so far as available is as follows:—
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1st January, 1932 |
2nd January, 1939 |
1st January, 1941 |
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Numbers |
Annual Salaries and Allowances |
Numbers |
Annual Salaries and Allowances |
Numbers |
Annual Salaries and Allowances |
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£ |
£ |
£ |
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(a) Secretaries of Departments, Chairmen of Boards of Commissioners and Heads of Departments of State |
15 |
22,365 |
15 |
22,469 |
14 |
21,750 |
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(b) Assistant Secretaries |
14 |
16,584 |
25 |
29,629 |
24 |
30,125 |
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(c) Principal Officers |
22 |
20,806 |
44 |
44,667 |
46 |
48,017 |
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(d) Assistant Principal Officers |
30 |
23,593 |
58 |
45,048 |
60 |
48,904 |
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(e) Junior Administrative Officers |
24 |
7,855 |
43 |
17,728 |
49 |
21,439 |
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(f) Higher Executive Officers |
176 |
109,024 |
202 |
125,625 |
221 |
143,614 |
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(g) Junior Executive Officers |
429 |
174,458 |
620 |
196,346 |
604 |
198,536 |
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(h) Staff Officers (maximum exceeding £500) |
5 |
4,242 |
4 |
3,218 |
4 |
3,315 |
Remarks:—
(a) Corresponding figures for 1st January, 1942, are not yet available.
(b) The figures shown represent the number of officers serving in a substantive capacity in the grades on the first working day of the calendar year.
(c) The figures given for the grades of Principal and Assistant Principal are not strictly comparable from year to year for the reason that numbers of posts formerly designated by various other titles were subsequently re-named Principal and Assistant Principal posts in the course of Departmental recorganisations extending over a number of years. Only those posts designated as Principal and Assistant Principal on the relevant dates have been included in the statement as after the lapse of years the identification of the several re-named posts is not practicable.
(d) Cadets serving in the Department of External Affairs who are on the same scale of pay as Junior Administrative Officers are included under this heading.