asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will state the number of civil servants of all grades employed in his Department.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Social Welfare Staffs.
Mr. O'Higgins
The number of civil servants employed in my Department is 2,045. This number includes 217 part-time local agents, 51 part-time cleaners, one electrician, one fitter and one plumber but does not include 81 branch managers, who are employed on a contract basis, and 330 clerks of old-age pension committees who are officers of local authorities but are paid out of the Vote for my Department.
Might I ask the Minister whether included in that list is the recently appointed officer in charge of the Minister's bathroom in Store Street?
I have no bathroom there. That is more Fine Gael propaganda.