Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 14 December 2023
231. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of people employed in the Office of the Ombudsman and the number of each grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55911/23]
View answerThe Office of the Ombudsman is funded as part of the Vote for the Office of the Ombudsman (Vote 19). The activities of the Ombudsman represent one of the programmes making up the overall Vote (the others are Commission for Public Service Appointments, Office of the Protected Disclosures Commission, Office of the Information Commissioner, Commissioner for Environmental Information and the Standards in Public Office Commission).
The table shows details of staff who are directly assigned to the Ombudsman function of the organisation and the total number of staff in the organisation as a whole. The Ombudsman function staffing figures do not include staff in the shared services area of the Office of the Ombudsman, who provide an extensive range of support services to the Ombudsman function.
|
GRADE |
Ombudsman Function Staffing |
Total Staffing Vote 19 |
|
ASG |
0 |
1 |
|
PO |
1 |
8 |
|
APO |
22 |
60 |
|
HEO |
8 |
19 |
|
AO |
1 |
9 |
|
EO |
11 |
31 |
|
CO |
9 |
17 |
|
TCO |
2 |
2 |
|
Services Officers |
0 |
2 |
|
Total |
54 |
149 |
The staffing support provided to Ombudsman includes the following:
- Provision of ICT services
- Provision of Finance services
- Human Resources services
- Facilities Management services
- Provision of in-house legal support
- Provision of in-house communications services
- Reception/Service officers
- Procurement Support
- Data Governance/Protection Support
- FOI support
