asked the Minister for Finance (a) the number of (i) permanent and (ii) temporary civil servants in the State on 1st January each year from 1955 to 1968 inclusive, (b) the total cost including allowances for each year and (c) the total cost of recent increases.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Strength and Cost of Civil Service.
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The information sought by the Deputy is set out in a statement which, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.
Following is the Statement:
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Number of Civil Servants |
Total Cost (including allowances) |
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Permanent |
Temporary |
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£m. |
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1st January, 1955 |
17,612 |
13,082 |
13.3 |
|
2nd January, 1956 |
18,221 |
12,373 |
14.8 |
|
1st January, 1957 |
18,322 |
12,401 |
15.2 |
|
1st January, 1958 |
18,437 |
11,848 |
15.2 |
|
1st January, 1959 |
18,622 |
9,417 |
15.2 |
|
1st January, 1960 |
19,074 |
9,034 |
16.4 |
|
2nd January, 1961 |
19,289 |
8,792 |
16.3 |
|
1st January, 1962 |
19,883 |
9,027 |
17.8 |
|
1st January, 1963 |
20,248 |
9,480 |
19.1 |
|
1st January, 1964 |
20,733 |
9,650 |
19.6 |
|
1st January, 1965 |
21,433 |
10,242 |
24.8 |
|
1st January, 1966 |
22,256 |
10,353 |
27.4 |
|
1st January, 1967 |
23,025 |
9,940 |
29.6 |
|
1st January, 1968 |
23,959 |
9,730 |
30.5 |
The figures are taken from the Civil Service census which relates to the first working day of the calendar year. The 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1958 figures include temporary classes—mainly scale-payment sub-postmasters, branch managers of employment exchanges and certain part-time employees— whose estimated total number is 2,700 at most and who were excluded from the census from 1959 onwards.
As regards (c), the estimated annual cost of recent eleventh round increases is £3m.