Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 July 2009
619 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff in her Department, including all authorities, agencies or other institutions under the aegis of her Department, who have applied for the incentivised early retirement scheme and the incentivised career break scheme; the number who have been made redundant in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29315/09]
View answerTo date, 78 applications have been received for the Incentivised Scheme of Early Retirement from staff in the Department. There are no applications to date for the Scheme from staff in the Agencies under the aegis of the Department. The Scheme remains open for applications until 1 st September 2009.
The Department received 62 applications for the Incentivised Career Break Scheme which closed for applications on 1 st July 2009. In addition, 1 application for the Scheme was received from a staff member in the Family Support Agency, which comes under the aegis of the Department. The closing date for applications was 1 st July 2009.
There have been no redundancies in the Department in the past 12 months.
