asked the Taoiseach (a) the total number employed full time in the Civil Service, excluding the Garda and Army, (b) the total number employed in the Garda and Army, including all ranks, (c) the total number in the full time employment of all local authorities, and (d) the total number employed in the State-sponsored organisations.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Employment Statistics.
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(a) The number of civil servants, as recorded at the Civil Service Census, relating to 1 January, 1964, was 30,383. This total does not include industrial staff, civilian employees of the Department of Defence, scale-payment subpostmasters, branch managers of employment exchanges, collectors of taxes and casual staff.
(b) The total number in the Defence Forces on 31 March, 1964, excluding officers and men of the reserve, An Forsa Cosanta Áitiúil and An Slua Muirí, was 8,221. The number in the Garda Síochána on 30 June, 1963, was 6,401.
(c) It is not possible to distinguish those in part-time and full-time employment by local authorities and it is estimated that for the year ended 31 March, 1963, the average total employment by such bodies, including vocational education committees and county committees of agriculture, was 51,100. This figure does not include employees of harbour authorities for whom data are not available.
(d) The term "State-sponsored organisation" is not well defined and there may be some doubt as to whether or not certain bodies should be so classified. The definition has been taken as including autonomous corporations and companies, etc., with their wholly-owned subsidiaries, to which the Government or Ministers appoint directors, etc., and whose staff are not civil servants. Aggregating the available data, which relate to various dates in 1963-64, it is estimated that the average number employed by such bodies was 52,500. Universities and university colleges are not included in this total.
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(South Tipperary) asked the Taoiseach the percentage of the population (a) primarily engaged in agricultural work, and (b) engaged in secondary agricultural work, that is, work arising from the processing and/ or distribution of primary agricultural products.
At the Census of Population, 1961, persons at work in Agriculture, excluding Forestry, numbered 371,316 representing 35.3 per cent of the total population at work.
While it is not possible to identify precisely the group of persons referred to in section (b) of the Deputy's question the following categories appear to correspond approximately to what is required:—manufacture of food and beverages, tanning and dressing of leather, dealing in livestock, wool, skins and leather, seeds and agricultural merchandise, wholesale distribution of food and drink, retail distribution of groceries, milk, meat, fish and poultry, vegetables and fruit, bread and flour confectionery and other food and drink.
The total number of persons engaged in these industrial groups at the Census of Population, 1961, was 103,846 or 9.9 per cent of the total number at work.
It should be noted that the above figures relate to persons whose principal occupations were in agriculture and in the other industrial groups mentioned. The Census of Population, 1961, revealed that many persons whose principal occupation was not that of farmer were the rated occupiers of agricultural holdings. The total number of such persons was 101,424 of which 22,096 had holdings of under one acre, 46,201 holdings of one to five acres and 33,127 holdings of five acres and over.