asked the Minister for Finance if he will state in respect of each of the financial years 1956-57 to 1965-66 (a) the number of civil servants employed, and (b) the cost of the Civil Service.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Civil Service.
11.
The available statistics are set out in a tabular statement which, with your permission, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:
|
Date |
Number of Civil Servants |
Total Remuneration £m. |
|
1st January, 1957 |
30,723 |
15.26 |
|
1st January, 1958 |
30,285 |
15.25 |
|
1st January, 1959 |
28,039 |
15.21 |
|
1st January, 1960 |
28,108 |
16.35 |
|
2nd January, 1961 |
28,081 |
16.32 |
|
1st January, 1962 |
28,910 |
17.82 |
|
1st January, 1963 |
29,728 |
19.09 |
|
1st January, 1964 |
30,383 |
19.64 |
|
1st January, 1965 |
31,675 |
24.82 |
|
3rd January, 1966 |
32,626 |
27.45 |
|
(provisional) |
(provisional) |
The figures are taken from the Civil Service Census which relates to the first working day of the calendar year. The 1957 and 1958 figures include classes — mainly scale-payment subpostmasters, branch managers of employment exchanges and certain parttime employees—whose estimated total number is 2,700 at most and who were excluded from the Census from 1959 onwards.
12.
asked the Minister for Finance if he will state in respect of each of the years 1956-57 to 1965-66 (a) the number of awards granted under the scheme of conciliation and arbitration for the Civil Service, and (b) the date of each award, the percentage increase involved, and its cost to the State.
The assembly of the information sought would require an entirely disproportionate amount of time, effort and expenditure.