Provisional figures for the end of 2012 show the number of staff in my Department to be 3,276 full-time equivalents (FTEs) who are deployed across a number of grade streams, as indicated in Table 1 below:
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Table 1: DAFM Staff by Grade Stream
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Grade Stream
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End-2012 FTE
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Administrative
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1,719
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Technical
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709
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Veterinary
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273
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Laboratory
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194
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Inspectorate
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188
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Other
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131
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Industrial
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62
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My Department has a staffing presence in some 200 locations predominantly in over 70 meat factories countrywide. The greatest concentration of staff occurs in headquarter locations in Dublin, Backweston, Portlaoise, Johnstown Castle, Cavan and Clonakilty. A further cohort is employed in the Department’s network of Regional Offices (16) and Laboratories (9). A breakdown of staff numbers in these major areas is as in Table 2 below:
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Table 2: Staff numbers in particular areas in DAFM
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AREA
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FTE
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Dublin (Agriculture House)
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490
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Backweston (including Lab. complex)
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376
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Portlaoise
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436
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Johnstown Castle (Wexford)
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236
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Cavan
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141
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Clonakilty
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84
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Regional Office Network
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726
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Factory locations
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237
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Laboratories (excluding Backweston)
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118
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Maximum staffing levels for each Government Department/Office are determined annually by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the context of the Employment Control Framework (ECF). The mid-2014 ECF ceiling for my Department is 3,107 FTE. DAFM is actively re-organising and restructuring in order to deploy its workforce effectively across all Programmes to maintain current high levels of service delivery against this background of future significant staffing reductions.
