Public Sector Staff Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 20 June 2013

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Questions (103)

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

103. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons employed in the public sector by his Department or agency and by grade for each year of the five consecutive years for which the most recent data is available. [30453/13]

Written answers

Minister for Education and Skills

The details sought by the Deputy are not fully available in the specific format requested. However, the table provides a sectoral breakdown of public sector numbers across the Education and Skills area for each of the five years 2008 to 2012.

Public Sector Numbers in Education - 2008 to 2012 (Whole Time Equivalents)*

Summary of Overall Positions

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End 2008 Nos.

End 2009 Nos.

End 2010 Nos.

End 2011 Nos.

End 2012 Nos.

1. Civil Service	Total	1,675	1,612	1,589	1,559	1,507
2.  Education Sector	Total	94,050	92,434	93,050	90,945	90,702
3.  NCSAs	Total	1,678	1,526	1,435	1,363	1,283
Overall Total	-	97,403	95,572	96,074	93,867	93,492
1. Civil Service	Total	1,675	1,612	1,589	1,559	1,507
Of which: -	National Council for Special Education	105	110	108	107	103
-	State Exams Commission	170	163	154	148	147
-	{  Department of Education & Skills	1,143	1,097	1,088	1,059	1,019
-	{                                                   NEPS	173	174	183	192	187
-	National Council for Curriculum and Assessment	37	30	26	23	26
-	Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse	18	10	3	3	3
-	Residential Institutions Redress Board	29	28	27	27	22
2.  Education Sector	Total	94,050	92,434	93,050	90,945	90,702
Of which: -	First Level Education	41,033	40,903	41,504	40,568	40,998
-	Primary Teachers	31,939	31,814	32,423	32,030	32,276
-	Model Schools	8	8	8	8	8
-	Clerical Assistants	195	194	189	188	186
-	Caretakers	196	181	169	154	144
-	Rutland Street	5	5	5	5	5
-	Other Special Ed Projects	20	18	18	18	18
-	SNAs	8,670	8,683	8,692	8,165	8,361
-	Second Level Education	33,074	32,501	32,990	32,348	32,038
-	Secondary Teachers	-	-	-	12,940	12,629
-	Vocational Teachers	-	-	-	10,670	10,689
-	C&C Teachers	-	-	-	4,260	4,192
-	Teacher sub-total	28,297	27,779	28,203	27,870	27,510
-	SNAs	2,002	1,950	2,142	1,952	2,029
-	Clerical Assistants	141	138	137	131	128
-	C&C Non-Teachers	503	503	466	454	441
-	VEC Non-Teachers	2,131	2,131	2,042	1,941	1,930
-	Third Level Education (core funded posts)	19,943	19,030	18,556	18,029	17,666
-	Universities/HEA Institutions	11,365	10,843	10,527	10,276	10,060
-	Institutes of Technology	8,180	7,797	7,656	7,398	7,265
-	Colleges of Education/Non-HEA Institutions	32	33	31	29	27
-	Dublin Dental Hospital	143	138	136	131	126
-	Royal Irish Academy	90	85	78	70	72
-	Royal Irish Academy of Music	68	69	64	64	59
-	Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies	65	65	64	61	57
3.  NCSAs	Total	1,678	1,526	1,435	1,363	1,283
Of which: -	QQI (HETAC, FETAC, NQAI, IUQB)	104	104	93	90	80
-	Grangegorman Development Agency	6	5	4	7	7
-	Higher Education Authority	76	64	63	61	56
-	National Centre for Technology in Education	19	19	17	16	14
-	Teaching Council	39	39	38	28	30
-	FAS(Staff assigned to DES)	1434	1295	1220	1161	1096

* Note - the numbers provided in this table relate to posts funded from Pay subheads under the Education and Skills Vote. A number of other posts are funded from Non-Pay subheads and are not included in this table, e.g. ancillary staff employed by schools.