asked the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants, permanent and temporary, employed by the State in each of the years 1956, 1960 and 1963.
Ceisteanna — Questions. Oral Answers. - Permanent and Temporary Civil Servants.
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The available statistics are set out in a tabular statement which, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:—
|
Date |
Number of civil servants |
|
|
Permanent |
Temporary |
|
|
2nd January, 1956. |
18,221 |
12,373 |
|
1st January, 1960. |
19,074 |
9,034 |
|
1st January, 1963. |
20,248 |
9,480 |
The figures are taken from the Civil Service Census which relates to the first working day of the calendar year. The 1956 figures include classes — mainly scale-payment subpostmasters, branch managers of employment exchanges and certain part-time employees — whose estimated total number is 2,700 at most and who were excluded from the Census from 1959 onwards.