Departmental Staff Redeployment

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 25 October 2012

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Questions (222, 223)

Mary Lou McDonald

Question:

222. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff members from her Department that have been temporarily and or permanently redeployed to other Government Departments or agencies since 27 March 2009; the details of the grades and pay scales of same; the total amount of savings achieved in salary payments in respect of the persons concerned; the duration of assignments; the business reasons supporting the redeployment of staff; the details of sanction received from the Department of Finance and or Public Expenditure and Reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47175/12]

Mary Lou McDonald

Question:

223. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff members that have been temporarily and or permanently redeployed to her Department from other Government Departments or agencies since 27 March 2009; the details of the grades and pay scales involved; the total increase in salary payments for her Department in respect of the persons concerned; the duration of assignments; the area to which each person was assigned; the business reasons supporting the redeployment of staff; the details of sanction received from the Department of Finance and or Public Expenditure and Reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47190/12]

Written answers

Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Deputy Frances Fitzgerald)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 222 and 223 together.

The establishment of my Department in June 2011 effectively involved the permanent redeployment of staff from a number of Departments: the Departments of Health; Education and Skills; Justice and Equality and Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs. In addition one member of staff was redeployed from a Non-Commercial Semi-State Body. This process involved considerable co-operation from all staff and the Departments involved.

The following table sets out the numbers, grades and current deployment within the Department of the persons involved. It does not take account of an additional 8 members of staff who were directly recruited to the Department. The payroll allocation for my Department for 2012 is €8.260 million. As a newly established Department, we are currently within our Employment Control limit and there are no other budgetary or business reasons to redeploy staff. Accordingly, no staff from my Department have been temporarily or permanently redeployed to other Government Departments or agencies.

Appendix

Staff members redeployed to the Department of Children & Youth Affairs

Section	Ass Sec/Director	PO	AP	HEO	AO	EO	SO	CO	SERV
Minister's Office	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.00	2.00	0.00	3.80	0.00
MAC & MAC Support	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.00	1.00	0.00
Legislation	0.00	2.00	3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Child Welfare & Protection Policy	0.00	3.60	3.73	3.80	3.00	2.73	0.00	1.00	0.00
Policy & Strategy Development & Business & Parliamentary Support	0.00	0.80	2.00	1.00	1.00	0.00	0.00	2.60	0.00
Press & Communications	0.00	1.00	0.00	1.00	0.00	1.00	0.00	1.00	0.00
Children's Participation	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.50	0.00	1.00	0.00
Early Childhood Care and Education Policy & Programmes	0.00	1.00	1.80	4.00	0.00	7.00	1.80	5.90	0.00
Educational Welfare	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00	0.00	1.00	0.00	1.00	0.00
Youth Affairs	0.00	1.00	1.80	2.60	0.00	4.10	0.00	2.40	0.00
Children and Young People's Strategy	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Children's Research Programme	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Irish Youth Justice Service	0.00	3.00	3.80	4.30	0.00	2.00	0.00	2.00	0.00
Adoption	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.60	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Corporate Support (HR, Finance, Organisation)	0.00	1.00	2.00	3.80	0.00	6.10	0.00	2.60	3.00
Internal Audit	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00