Dáil Éireann Debate, Monday - 11 September 2023
652. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education the number of staff in her Department working on procurement services providing support to contracting authorities and their respective grades; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38195/23]
View answerAs the Deputy will appreciate, my Department procures a wide range of goods and services and works with contracting authorities across the education sector in relation to their procurement requirements.
In this context, I would note that the Education Procurement Service has been established in order to provide support in relation to procurement to schools, ETBs and other bodies within the education sector.
In the Department itself, there are the equivalent of 15.4 FTE working directly on procurement as part of their responsibilities. The attached table gives the breakdown by grade of the officers involved.
|
Grade |
FTE |
|
PO |
0.8 |
|
APO |
8.25 |
|
HEO |
4.5 |
|
EO |
1.6 |
|
CO |
0.25 |
