As I announced in the Budget, the Moratorium is being replaced in 2015 with a framework which will delegate to Government Departments sanction for management of staff numbers, subject to remaining within binding overall pay ceilings, and other controls. Sanction has already been delegated to a number of Departments, including my own, and negotiations are ongoing with others, with a view to having the agreements in place as soon as practicable.
Tables 1 and 2 set out the recruitment to my Department and those bodies under my aegis since the sanction was issued.
Table 3 sets out the Public Service staffing levels, by sector, at the end of 2014 (which are the latest fully reconciled figures) and the comparable figures at the end of the first quarter of 2009, when the Moratorium was introduced. The end 2014 figures will not reflect the recruitment under the new delegated arrangements.
Further details on Public Service numbers is available on my Department's Databank website at http://databank.per.gov.ie/ .
Table 1 - Recruitment figures for 2015 for Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
|
Post/Grade
|
Number of Posts
|
Vote Area
|
|
Administrative Officer Generalist
|
12
|
Public Expenditure and Reform
|
|
Administrative Officer Graduate Economist
|
1
|
Public Expenditure and Reform
|
|
Head of OGCIO
|
1
|
Public Expenditure and Reform
|
|
Assistant Principal - OGCIO
|
3
|
Public Expenditure and Reform
|
|
Assistant Principal Payroll Shared Services
|
3
|
Shared Services
|
|
Assistant Principal National Shared Services Office
|
1
|
Shared Services
|
|
Clerical Officer National Shared Services Office
|
1
|
Shared Services
|
|
Clerical Officer PeoplePoint
|
127
|
Shared Services
|
|
Category Manager
|
5
|
Office of Government Procurement
|
|
Category Specialist Higher
|
18
|
Office of Government Procurement
|
|
Category Specialist
|
10
|
Office of Government Procurement
|
|
Technical Adviser
|
1
|
Office of Government Procurement
|
|
Clerical Officer
|
13
|
Office of Government Procurement
|
Table 2 - Recruitment figures for 2015 for bodies under the aegis of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
|
Offices
|
Grade
|
Number
|
|
Office of the Ombudsman
|
Principal Officer
|
1
|
|
|
Assistant Principal
|
6
|
|
|
Administrative Officer
|
1
|
|
|
Clerical Officer
|
7
|
|
State Lab
|
Chemist Grade 3
|
5
|
|
Public Appointments Service
|
Clerical Officers
|
24
|
|
|
Temporary Clerical Officers
|
2
|
|
OPW
|
Clerical Officer
|
1
|
Table 3 Public Service Numbers 2009 and 2014
|
SECTOR
|
Civil Service
|
Defence
|
Education
|
Health
|
Justice
|
Local Authorities
|
NCSAs
|
Total
|
|
Quarter 1, 2009
|
39,129
|
11,169
|
95,253
|
111,770
|
15,664
|
34,179
|
12,981
|
320,145
|
|
Quarter 4, 2014
|
36,172
|
9,785
|
94,045
|
97,791
|
12,787
|
26,786
|
12,276
|
289,643
|
|
Change:
|
2,957
|
1,384
|
1,208
|
13,979
|
2,877
|
7,393
|
705
|
30,502
|
|
Percentage change:
|
7.56%
|
12.39%
|
1.27%
|
12.51%
|
18.37%
|
21.63%
|
5.43%
|
9.53%
|
