In 2015 my Department received delegated sanction, which remains in place, from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The sanction delegates to my Department the management of its, and its Agencies, pay and staff allocation (up to Principal Officer standard) within an overall pay budget.
The number of staff in each of the Agencies under my Department’s remit from 2014 to 2017 is listed in the document that follows. The document also includes the number of staff requested, and the number of staff hired, within the period 2014 to the end of 2017.
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
Year
|
No. of Staff at 1 January
|
No. staff requested
|
No. subsequently hired
|
2014
|
84.5 FTE
|
3
|
0
|
2015
|
83.5 FTE
|
26
|
9
|
2016
|
83.6 FTE
|
14
|
32
|
2017
|
82.9 FTE
|
6
|
29
|
Enterprise Ireland
Year
|
No. of Staff at 1 January
|
No. staff requested
|
No. subsequently hired *
|
2014
|
648.5
|
21
|
28
|
2015
|
631
|
19
|
21
|
2016
|
563
|
39
|
43
|
2017
|
564
|
18
|
74
|
* The figures include all staff hired in Ireland & overseas excluding those hired in the Enterprise Ireland two-year Graduate Programme. The numbers provided are gross figures and do not take account of leavers in the same period. All staff hired are within EI approved headcount for Ireland based and overseas based staff.
Health and Safety Authority
Year
|
No. of Staff at 1 January
|
No. staff requested
|
No. subsequently hired
|
2014
|
162.4
|
4
|
1
|
2015
|
167.1
|
4
|
3
|
2016
|
166.2
|
12
|
6
|
2017
|
158.6
|
10
|
16
|
Science Foundation Ireland
Year
|
No. of Staff at 1 January
|
No. staff requested
|
No. subsequently hired
|
2014
|
49
|
1
|
2
|
2015
|
49
|
3
|
3
|
2016
|
49
|
21
|
5
|
2017
|
47
|
23
|
16
|
IDA Ireland
Year
|
No. of Staff at 1 January
|
No. staff requested
|
No. subsequently hired *
|
2014
|
282
|
19 + 35* ‘Winning Abroad’ *fixed term contracts for 3 years
|
19 + 35
|
2015
|
262
|
38
|
38
|
2016
|
265
|
59
5 (graduates on rolling 3-year fixed term contracts)
|
48
5 approved and hired during 2017
|
2017
|
268
|
255 (graduates on rolling 3 year fixed term contracts)
|
25
|
*hired staff may also relate to replacing staff as opposed to increasing the staff complement.
Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority
Year
|
No. of Staff at 1 January
|
No. staff requested
|
No. subsequently hired
|
2014
|
13
|
11
|
0
|
2015
|
13
|
1
|
5
|
2016
|
17
|
17
|
4
|
2017
|
20
|
0
|
7
|
National Standards Authority of Ireland
Year
|
No. of Staff at 1 January
|
No. staff requested
|
No. subsequently hired
|
2014
|
132
|
1
|
1
|
2015
|
133
|
8
|
2
|
2016
|
130
|
3
|
7
|
2017
|
129
|
9
|
15
|
Personal Injuries Assessment Board
Year
|
No. of Staff at 1 January
|
No. staff requested
|
No. subsequently hired
|
2014
|
67
|
13
|
0
|
2015
|
67
|
13
|
2
|
2016
|
66
|
14
|
16
|
2017
|
80
|
17 *
|
17
|
* Includes sanction for 2 staff who are on secondment from PIAB to the Personal Injuries Commission.