Written Answers Nos. 88-95
88. Deputy Seamus Kirk asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the number of State and Government employees, by Department and by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16124/15]
View answerThe information set out in tabular form shows the number of Civil Servants in each Government Department on a county by county basis. These numbers are recorded on a full-time equivalent basis, and the figures reflect the position at end-2014. Information on the number of Civil and Public Servants in each State office or body under the aegis of my Department, on a county by county basis, is also set out.
Further high level information, at a national level only, for the wider Public Service is available on my Department's website - at http://databank.per.gov.ie/. With regard to the detailed county by county information on the wider Public Service, for example within the Education or the Health sector, I direct the Deputy to the relevant sectoral Minister.
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE & REFORM GROUP, STAFF NUMBERS BY COUNTY, Q4 2014
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DPER |
OPW |
State Laboratory |
Valuation Office |
Public Appointments Service |
Shared Services |
Office of the Ombudsman |
Office of Government Procurement |
Totals |
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LOCATION: |
Civil Servants |
Public Servants |
Civil Servants |
Industrial Civil Servants |
Civil Servants |
Civil Servants |
Civil Servants |
Civil Servants |
Civil Servants |
Civil Servants |
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Carlow |
3.79 |
3.79 |
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Cavan |
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Clare |
7.00 |
7.00 |
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Cork |
9.00 |
60.13 |
69.13 |
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Donegal |
2.00 |
20.00 |
22.00 |
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Dublin |
350.25 |
187.60 |
390.66 |
121.30 |
94.80 |
330.50 |
87.56 |
133.25 |
1695.92 |
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Galway |
3.00 |
21.33 |
74.69 |
99.02 |
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Kerry |
28.60 |
7.00 |
53.71 |
18.13 |
107.44 |
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Kildare |
1.00 |
13.04 |
78.70 |
92.74 |
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Kilkenny |
37.81 |
60.85 |
98.66 |
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Laois |
2.00 |
8.00 |
10.00 |
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Leitrim |
16.00 |
16.00 |
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Limerick |
17.53 |
43.51 |
61.04 |
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Longford |
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Louth |
2.00 |
13.00 |
15.00 |
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Mayo |
28.90 |
31.67 |
60.57 |
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Meath |
207.63 |
110.11 |
317.74 |
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Monaghan |
55.00 |
5.00 |
60.00 |
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Offaly |
6.00 |
6.00 |
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Roscommon |
1.00 |
1.00 |
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Sligo |
6.00 |
6.41 |
12.41 |
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Tipperary |
1.50 |
28.79 |
30.29 |
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Waterford |
7.00 |
2.00 |
9.00 |
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Westmeath |
5.73 |
27.00 |
32.73 |
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Wexford |
2.00 |
22.50 |
24.50 |
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Wicklow |
1.00 |
11.00 |
12.00 |
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Perm Rep, Brussels |
1.00 |
1.00 |
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TOTAL: |
382.85 |
55.00 |
548.03 |
1014.86 |
78.70 |
121.30 |
94.80 |
348.63 |
87.56 |
133.25 |
2864.98 |
CIVIL SERVICE NUMBERS BY DEPT & COUNTY, Q4 2014
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Carlow |
Cavan |
Clare |
Cork |
Donegal |
Dublin |
Galway |
Kerry |
Kildare |
Kilkenny |
Laois |
Leitrim |
Limerick |
Longford |
Louth |
Mayo |
Meath |
Monaghan |
Offaly |
Roscommon |
Sligo |
Tipperary |
Waterford |
Westmeath |
Wexford |
Wicklow |
Abroad |
Other |
TOTALS |
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TOTALS PER COUNTY: |
188.01 |
357.10 |
559.56 |
1,943.14 |
756.77 |
14,508.88 |
812.72 |
739.82 |
911.64 |
358.54 |
549.92 |
264.36 |
1,355.50 |
590.85 |
526.19 |
785.48 |
578.95 |
161.15 |
393.50 |
237.14 |
768.42 |
1,060.88 |
587.08 |
846.04 |
733.10 |
159.87 |
622.00 |
3,450.27 |
34,806.88 |
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BREAKDOWN BY DEPT: |
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Presidents Establishment |
25.17 |
25.17 |
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Taoiseach |
185.89 |
185.89 |
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Attorney General |
125.70 |
125.70 |
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Central Statistics Office |
461.18 |
152.55 |
613.73 |
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Director of Public Prosecutions |
180.60 |
180.60 |
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Chief State Solicitors Office |
234.19 |
234.19 |
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Oireachtas |
420.44 |
420.44 |
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Finance |
230.50 |
1.00 |
60.52 |
1.00 |
293.02 |
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Comptroller & Auditor General |
146.90 |
146.90 |
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Revenue |
2.00 |
5.50 |
307.32 |
368.07 |
98.15 |
2,478.48 |
173.21 |
122.24 |
66.20 |
94.53 |
11.00 |
814.94 |
200.88 |
117.70 |
89.65 |
36.60 |
9.15 |
12.20 |
71.02 |
325.46 |
121.06 |
79.32 |
133.11 |
6.80 |
5,744.59 |
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Appeals Commissioner |
4.00 |
4.00 |
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Public Expenditure & Reform |
350.25 |
3.00 |
28.60 |
1.00 |
382.85 |
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Office of Public Works |
9.00 |
2.00 |
187.60 |
21.33 |
7.00 |
1.00 |
37.81 |
2.00 |
17.53 |
2.00 |
28.90 |
207.63 |
1.00 |
6.00 |
1.50 |
7.00 |
5.73 |
2.00 |
1.00 |
548.03 |
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State Laboratory |
78.70 |
78.70 |
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Valuation Office |
121.30 |
121.30 |
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Public Appointment Service |
94.80 |
94.80 |
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Shared Services |
330.50 |
18.13 |
348.63 |
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Ombudsman |
87.56 |
87.56 |
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Office of Government Procurement |
133.25 |
133.25 |
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Prisons |
117.78 |
3,263.02 |
3,380.80 |
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Justice Equality & Law Reform |
10.40 |
29.41 |
38.28 |
198.45 |
50.34 |
2,223.19 |
57.36 |
241.84 |
40.46 |
41.33 |
59.01 |
9.48 |
93.83 |
25.09 |
42.07 |
230.09 |
111.54 |
26.30 |
17.91 |
15.06 |
30.51 |
475.52 |
52.65 |
38.76 |
42.81 |
30.42 |
1.00 |
4,233.11 |
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Courts Service |
7.00 |
9.13 |
14.00 |
70.20 |
17.93 |
523.76 |
25.71 |
15.10 |
19.13 |
12.30 |
9.60 |
5.00 |
26.60 |
8.00 |
17.73 |
21.90 |
13.13 |
9.60 |
7.93 |
6.73 |
9.50 |
16.20 |
16.30 |
14.20 |
13.00 |
17.20 |
926.88 |
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Property Registration Authority |
272.20 |
64.03 |
163.61 |
499.84 |
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Environment |
21.00 |
18.00 |
1.23 |
381.77 |
1.00 |
11.00 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
140.28 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
4.00 |
5.00 |
3.00 |
125.23 |
1.00 |
718.51 |
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Education & Skills |
3.00 |
6.30 |
11.00 |
59.50 |
12.00 |
397.86 |
24.60 |
12.00 |
33.30 |
7.73 |
7.00 |
1.00 |
22.70 |
7.00 |
6.50 |
24.00 |
2.00 |
181.23 |
6.00 |
11.40 |
12.33 |
10.80 |
554.09 |
13.33 |
6.00 |
54.00 |
1,486.67 |
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Foreign Affairs |
72.17 |
557.50 |
3.00 |
542.00 |
1,174.67 |
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International Cooperation |
37.80 |
73.25 |
71.00 |
182.05 |
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Communications Energy & Nat Resources |
39.40 |
208.32 |
247.72 |
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Agriculture |
16.00 |
210.68 |
14.00 |
268.44 |
66.80 |
505.22 |
77.90 |
45.80 |
425.40 |
44.50 |
424.58 |
42.06 |
78.20 |
15.00 |
7.00 |
94.70 |
64.20 |
28.00 |
34.40 |
44.46 |
34.60 |
76.00 |
45.10 |
33.05 |
264.82 |
6.80 |
2,967.71 |
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Transport |
60.63 |
5.50 |
26.00 |
295.19 |
14.00 |
25.30 |
3.57 |
430.19 |
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Jobs Enterprise & Innovation |
90.60 |
7.00 |
636.14 |
46.31 |
9.00 |
9.00 |
798.05 |
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Arts Heritage & The Gaeltacht |
5.60 |
7.50 |
9.00 |
264.96 |
56.39 |
53.86 |
5.10 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
3.00 |
13.40 |
2.70 |
3.60 |
4.00 |
1.60 |
6.00 |
34.50 |
6.60 |
481.81 |
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National Gallery |
47.40 |
47.40 |
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Defence |
2.00 |
11.50 |
148.85 |
147.29 |
23.40 |
2.00 |
5.00 |
340.04 |
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Army Pensions |
1.00 |
1.00 |
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Social Protection |
59.01 |
56.68 |
87.73 |
396.13 |
473.32 |
2,307.01 |
209.37 |
158.95 |
95.06 |
71.03 |
36.73 |
204.82 |
213.45 |
421.98 |
249.51 |
128.44 |
65.10 |
57.65 |
81.36 |
87.66 |
588.79 |
121.47 |
165.96 |
112.89 |
104.30 |
85.05 |
6,639.45 |
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Health |
338.27 |
338.27 |
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Children & Youth Affairs |
143.36 |
143.36 |
89. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the State and State agency grants paid to and-or payable in the future to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16158/15]
View answerThe company referred to is not a client company of IDA and no grants have been paid nor are payable to it by this Department or any of its Agencies.
However, that company's parent company, which has a wide range of business activities, is a client of IDA and was approved grant assistance in 2013 for a project but no moneys have been paid to date.
90. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene with a company (details supplied) to save 160 jobs at risk at the Intellicom contact centre in Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16159/15]
View answerIntellicom is a client of Enterprise Ireland. Enterprise Ireland continues to support the company and monitor the situation and are in ongoing dialogue with all stakeholders with a view to achieving the best possible outcomes.
91. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a premium is applied to steer and suckler beef and not to heifers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16027/15]
View answerThe Single Payment Scheme, which was replaced by the Basic Payment Scheme in 2015, was implemented in Ireland in 2005. It replaced the following coupled Schemes: Suckler Cow Premium Scheme; Ewe Premium Scheme; Special Beef Premium Scheme; Slaughter Premium; Arable Aid Scheme; Dairy Premium Scheme; Sugar Beet Compensation; and National Envelope top-ups.
The amount of the Single Payment was based on the payments made to farmers under the above Schemes during the historical 2000 to 2002 reference period. The Special Beef Premium Scheme applied to steers and bulls and under the provisions of the governing EU Regulations, heifers were not eligible for payment under this Scheme. However, heifers over eight months of age were entitled to payment under the EU Slaughter Premium Scheme and heifers were also payable under some of the National Envelope top-ups. Both payments under the Slaughter Premium and the National Envelope top-ups were incorporated in the Single Payment Scheme.
A vibrant and high-quality national beef herd is manifestly crucial to the success and prosperity of the Irish beef sector. To this end, my Department and the agencies under its remit continue to provide an array of financial and infrastructural supports to underpin production in the beef sector, including through the new Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP). The Deputy will be aware that for 2015, I have secured €52 million in funding for the Beef Data and Genomics Programme which will be used to deliver accelerated improvement in the environmental sustainability of the beef herd through the application of genomics technology.
I will be launching this scheme very shortly and participants will be paid for work carried out in a range of areas related to data recording and animal breeding policies, such as recording a range of data relating to performance criteria and animal events, taking tissue (DNA) samples from selected animals and sending onwards for laboratory testing, completing an on-farm Carbon Navigator, and selecting high quality replacement bulls and heifers over the six years of the BDGP contract. I am confident that this Programme will allow farmers to manage their enterprises in a more environmentally sustainable manner, support the highest standards of quality in the national suckler herd and establish Ireland at the global forefront in the application of genomics technology in beef production.
92. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make the provision of comfort slat mats eligible for grant aid under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2 when it opens for applications later in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16033/15]
View answerI have no plans at present to include the provision of Comfort Slat Mats in the next suite of TAMS measures under the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme. However, I will keep the matter under review.
93. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if approval has been received from the European Commission under state aid rules in relation to changes in stamp duty provisions pertaining to farmland leasing, as provided for in the Finance Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16071/15]
View answerThe relief of stamp duty on long-term leases was included in the Finance Act 2014, subject to a commencement order. The relief is not currently in force as it cannot be introduced until it is granted State Aid approval by the European Commission. The Department held initial discussions with the Commission in this regard but they indicated that the measure, as presented, was not State Aid compatible. The Department is in the process of submitting the measure again, with a view to examining the matter further with the Commission.
94. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 31 March 2015, the outcome of the recent consultation regarding the cohort of farmers who commenced farming before October 2008 and did not have the opportunity to build up good entitlements between the years 2000 and 2002 and are still excluded from the national reserve (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16073/15]
View answerOfficials from my Department met with representatives of the group of farmers to which the Deputy refers on 1st April 2015 to discuss the circumstances of these particular farmers. It was agreed that a further meeting would take place at the end of April.
With regard to access under Pillar 2 to the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) for young farmers who established their holdings prior to 2008, I intend to prioritise their applications under TAMS, with grant-aid payable at 40%.
95. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figures for the net discounted revenue and projected financial loss resulting from the reduction in forest productivity and premature clear felling at a location (details supplied) in County Roscommon due to turbine base construction, road construction and reconstruction, mast construction and turbulence avoidance felling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16087/15]
View answerThis is a matter for Coillte. Coillte Teoranta was established as a private commercial company under the Forestry Act, 1988 and day-to-day operational matters, such as the calculation of costs at a project level, are the responsibility of the company.
