asked the Minister for the Public Service the number of persons currently employed in the public sector including semi-state companies, the percentage of the total work force this figure represents, with similar figures for 1975, 1970, and 1965.
Written Answers. - Public Sector Employees.
310.
The information sought by the Deputy is set out in tabular form below. The latest available information relates to 1979.
|
Year |
Number |
Total work force |
number employed as % of total workforce |
|
millions |
|||
|
1979 |
289,000 |
1.070 |
27 |
|
1975 |
263,000 |
1.052 |
25 |
|
1970 |
207,000 |
1.053 |
20 |
|
1965 |
192,000 |
1.069 |
18 |
Notes
(i) Public sector employment embraces all employees in the public service (i.e. civil service, teachers, defence forces, Garda Siochána, health boards and local authority services including staff of Vocational Education Committees and county committees of agriculture), Higher Education Institutions, Voluntary Hospitals and State-sponsored Bodies.
(ii) Figures for some of the constituents of the public sector mentioned in (i) are estimated.
311.
andMr. Mitchell asked the Minister for the Public Service the cost of the State of (a) giving an extra week's holiday or (b) giving a 15 per cent wage increase to all public employees.
For the public employees covered by the budgetary provision for Exchequer pay for 1980, the information requested is as follows: Annual cost to the State—(a) extra week's holiday, £30 million approximately; (b) 15 per cent wage increase, £210 million approximately.
The main groups of employees covered are civil servants, industrial civil servants, teachers, gardaí, Defence Forces, health staff and the staff of certain non-commercial State-sponsored bodies, universities and colleges.