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Thursday, 25 September 2008

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Joan Burton

Question:

51 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Finance the number of staff, or whole-time equivalents, in the civil and public service for each year since 2000, including the latest figure for 2008, broken down by Department; the annual increase or decrease in the number of civil and public servants or whole time equivalents for each year since 2000, including a forecast for 2008, broken down by Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31353/08]

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Minister for Finance (Deputy Brian Lenihan)

The tables below set out the information sought by the Deputy for the Civil Service, the Public Service and the Local Authorities, to the extent it is currently available. The end-December figures for both 2007 and 2008 set out in Table A below reflect the projected position as at Budget day in December 2007. Table B sets out the split by Government Department/Office for the Civil Servant numbers up for December each year from 2000 to 2007 and for end-June 2008.

Table A: Public Service Numbers

	Public Service Numbers (by area) 2000-2008 (at 31 December each year)
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007(2)	2008(2)	2008 increase over 2000
Health	81,513	92,996	95,679	95,800	98,723	101,978	106,273	112,500	113,140	38.8%
Education	67,845	73,295	75,720	76,989	79,881	83,435	89,263	92,480	93,940	38.5%
Justice	12,228	12,460	12,642	12,773	13,373	13,392	14,109	14,874	15,414	26.1%
Defence	12,211	11,808	11,650	11,559	11,455	11,320	11,330	11,328	11,324	-7.3%
Civil Service	34,068	36,092	37,796	37,276	36,867	36,533	37,156	38,572	38,972	14.4%
NCSSBs	10,388	11,086	11,612	11,367	11,095	11,404	11,700	12,175	12,726	22.5%
Local Authorities(1)	29,090	32,062	34,175	33,845	33,394	34,067	34,681	34,926	35,526	22.1%
Public Service	247,343	269,799	279,274	279,609	284,788	292,129	304,512	316,855	321,042	29.8%
	Year-on-year percentage increase
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Health	11.9	14.1	2.9	0.1	3.1	3.3	4.2	5.9	0.6
Education	2.9	8.0	3.3	1.7	3.8	4.4	7.0	3.6	1.6
Justice	0.3	1.9	1.5	0.4	4.7	0.1	5.4	5.4	3.6
Defence	-1.0	-3.3	-1.3	-0.8	-0.9	-1.2	0.1	0.0	0.0
Civil Service	4.1	5.9	4.7	-1.4	-1.1	-0.9	2.6	3.8	1.0
NCSSBs	7.9	6.7	4.7	-2.3	-2.4	2.8	1.8	0.7	1.7
Local Authorities(1)	6.2	10.2	6.6	-1.0	-1.3	2.0	1.8	0.7	1.7
Public Service	6.1	9.1	3.5	0.1	1.9	2.6	4.2	4.1	1.3

(1) Local authority numbers are not included in the paybill.

(2) Projected figures.

Table B: Civil Service Numbers by Department/Office

Department/Office — serving non industrial civil servants	Dec 2000	Dec 2001	Dec 2002	Dec 2003	Dec 2004	Dec 2005	Dec 2006	Dec 2007	June 2008
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food	4,174	4,452	4,449	4,419	4,540	4,442	4,181	4,274	4,274
Arts, Sport & Tourism	114	109	463	438	416	166	170	178	176
Attorney General	81	97	119	119	123	117	118	132	132
Central Statistics Office	642	654	754	689	682	776	878	792	780
Chief State Solicitor	200	241	211	225	220	230	234	238	249
Public Appointments Service	173	193	175	153	147	140	145	147	151
Commission For Public Service Appointments					6	8	8	9	10
Communications, Energy & Nat. Resources	431	457	718	734	676	658	512	339	308
Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs	752	858	238	254	244	248	263	269	280
Comptroller & Auditor General	132	117	152	158	160	162	151	160	160
Courts Service	925	1,011	1,034	1,030	1,018	1,026	1,046	1,042	1,072
Defence	423	427	423	416	412	393	389	405	419
Director Of Public Prosecutions	39	61	165	167	171	169	174	193	198
Education & Science	1,105	1,181	1,408	1,553	1,547	1,613	1,662	1,661	1,771
Enterprise, Trade & Employment	958	1,009	1,082	1,023	1,029	973	966	1,036	1,059
Environment, Heritage & Local Government	860	910	1,353	1,364	1,259	1,256	1,261	1,302	1,245
Finance	572	628	623	601	587	587	622	629	615
Foreign Affairs	1,086	1,210	1,373	1,484	1,428	1,409	1,500	1,550	1,643
Health & Children	484	565	659	649	623	636	622	590	526
Justice, Equality & Law Reform	2,873	3,198	3,905	3,786	3,694	3,731	3,943	4,511	5,403
National Gallery	17	17	27	32	31	25	33	55	58

Table B: Civil Service Numbers by Department/Office —continued

Department/Office — serving non industrial civil servants	Dec 2000	Dec 2001	Dec 2002	Dec 2003	Dec 2004	Dec 2005	Dec 2006	Dec 2007	June 2008
Office Of Public Works	563	556	574	572	653	654	674	698	735
Oireachtas	274	314	321	322	341	366	383	402	426
Ombudsman	62	68	77	75	75	76	76	85	91
Ordnance Survey	274	314
Presidents Establishment	17	20	21	25	22	23	23	20	24
Prisons	3,201	3,221	3,442	3,353	3,310	3,268	3,334	3,501	3,595
Revenue Commissioners	6,175	6,451	6,428	6,342	6,389	6,362	6,553	6,572	6,557
Social & Family Affairs	4,221	4,444	4,417	4,306	4,286	4,281	4,323	4,344	4,498
State Laboratory	76	86	89	93	90	91	94	91	94
Taoiseach	186	208	219	220	216	213	215	220	225
Transport	627	656	516	517	509	505	694	450	564
Valuation Office	127	131	130	129	148	150	148	156	171
Total	31,835	33,857	35,561	35,247	35,050	34,751	35,394	36,050	37,507

Notes:

(a) Figures provided on the basis of the current configuration of Departments/Offices.

(b) The difference in the figures to the total Civil Service number quoted in Table A above is made up, in general, of Industrial Civil Servants who are attached in the main to the Dept of Environment, Heritage and Local Government and the Office of Public Works.