Arthur Morgan
Ceist:262 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff employed in the employment rights enforcement unit within his Department. [11661/06]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 28 March 2006
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Freagraí scríofa
The employment rights compliance section of the Department consists of three units: employment rights information, ERIU, labour inspectorate, LI and prosecution and enforcement unit, PE. The overall complement of staff across the three units is 57, broken down as follows: ERIU 13, LI 38 and PE six. The assignment of previously announced additional labour inspectors was completed in November 2005. That brought the complement of serving inspectors to 31 officers. That increase in staffing represents almost a doubling of the number of labour inspectors in the last 18 months. It should be noted that in addition to the employment rights compliance section, there is a wide range of employment rights bodies and services. These include the Employment Appeals Tribunal, the redundancy and insolvency sections of this Department, the rights commissioner services provided by the Labour Relations Commission and the services provided by the Labour Court. Between them, these various services have a complement of staff in excess of 150 people.