Departmental Staff

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 20 May 2021

Thursday, 20 May 2021

Ceisteanna (348)

Matt Carthy

Ceist:

348. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of civil servant posts that were filled through open and internal panels, since April 2020, in her Department and the bodies under the aegis of her Department, by county and by month in tabular form. [27601/21]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Justice

It has not been possible to collate the detail requested by the Deputy within the time allowed. I will write to the Deputy to provide this information as soon as it is available.

The following reply was received under Standing Order 51

I refer to Parliamentary Question No. 348 to my Department, which was for answer on 20 May 2021 and in which you requested the number of civil servant posts that were filled through open and internal panels since April 2020, in my Department and the bodies under the aegis of my Department, by county and by month in tabular form.

As you will recall, the information you requested could not be compiled in the time available and I undertook to contact you again. Please find a response to this question provided below for your consideration.

Department of Justice

Month	Internal	County	Open	County	Total Number of posts filled
Apr-20	0	Dublin	13	Dublin	13
May-20	0	Dublin	5	Dublin	5
Jun-20	0	Dublin	10	Dublin	10
Jul-20	20	Dublin	8	Dublin	28
Aug-20	3	Dublin	11	Dublin	14
Sep-20	1	Dublin	14	Dublin	15
Oct-20	20	Dublin 19Tipperary 1	23	Dublin 20Mayo 1 Roscommon 1 Tipperary 1	43
Nov-20	16	Dublin	29	Dublin 19 Tipperary 1 Mayo/Sligo 1 Donegal 1 Limerick 4 Meath 1 Laois 1 Cork 1	45
Dec-20	11	Dublin	5	Dublin 4 Laois 1	16
Jan-21	25	Dublin 23 Tipperary 2	24	Dublin 23 Westmeath 1	49
Feb-21	1	Dublin	22	Dublin 21Cavan 1	23
Mar-21	10	Dublin 7 Tipperary 2 Kerry 1	27	Dublin	37
Apr-21	7	Dublin	18	Dublin	25
May-21	1	Dublin	34	Dublin	35
Total	115		243		358

Policing Authority

Month	Internal	County	Open	County	Total Number of posts filled
Jun-20			2	Dublin	2
Jul-20	1	Dublin			1
Aug-20			1	Dublin	1
Sep-20			2	Dublin	2
Mar-21	1	Dublin	2	Dublin	3
May-21			2	Dublin	2
Total	2		9		11

GSOC

Month	Internal	County	Open	County	Total Number of posts filled
Apr-20	1	Dublin			1
May-20	2	Dublin			2
Jun-20			1	Dublin	1
Jul-20			1	Dublin	1
Nov-20			1	Dublin	1
Jan-21			5	Dublin 4Cork 1	5
Feb-21	2	Dublin	10	Dublin 9 Longford 1	12
Mar-21	3	Dublin	2	Dublin	5
Apr-21	1	Dublin			1
May-21			1	Dublin	1
Total	9		21		30

Legal Aid Board

Month	Internal	County	Open	County	Total Number of posts filled
May-20			1	Dublin	1
Jun-20			2	Meath 1 Galway 1	2
Jul-20			1	Dublin	1
Aug-20	2	Dublin 1 Kerry 1	1	Mayo	3
Sep-20	2	Kerry	5	Meath 2Kerry 2 Dublin 1	7
Oct-20			7	Dublin 4Westmeath 2Galway 1	7
Nov-20			11	Dublin 5Cork 2Mayo 1 Louth 1 Kerry 1 Offaly 1	11
Dec-20			2	Dublin 1 Carlow 1	2
Jan-21	1	Dublin	2	Dublin 1 Monaghan 1	3
Feb-21			1	Louth	1
Mar-21			6	Wicklow 2 Laois 1 Waterford 1 Dublin 1 Kerry 1	6
Apr-21			3	Monaghan 1 Kerry 1 Wexford 1	3
May-21			2	Cork 1 Kilkenny 1	2
Total	5		44		49

Courts Service

Month	Internal	County	Open	County	Total Number of posts filled
Apr-20			5	Dublin 2 Kildare 1 Mayo 1Cavan 1	5
May-20			2	Dublin	2
Jun-20			6	Dublin	6
Jul-20	3	Cork 1 Kildare 1 Sligo 1	4	Dublin 2 Galway 1 Cork1	7
Aug-20	6	Dublin 4 Limerick 1 Tipperary 1	5	Dublin 3 Clare 1 Limerick 1	11
Sep-20			9	Dublin 5 Kilkenny 1 Limerick 1 Roscommon 1 Offaly 1	9
Oct-20	6	Dublin	6	Dublin 4 Tipperary 1 Westmeath 1	12
Nov-20	5	Dublin 4 Kilkenny 1	19	Dublin 16 Galway 1 Wexford 1 Waterford 1	24
Dec-20	1	Dublin	3	Dublin 2 Sligo 1	4
Jan-21	2	Dublin	10	Dublin 7 Cork 1 Limerick 1 Meath 1	12
Feb-21	1	Tipperary	8	Dublin 7 Wexford 1	9
Mar-21	8	Dublin 7 Sligo 1	10	Dublin 6 Sligo 1 Wexford 1 Waterford 1 Wicklow 1	18
Apr-21	2	Dublin	12	Dublin 10 Kildare 1Cork 1	14
Total	34		99		133

The Judicial Appointments Advisory Board is staffed by the Courts Service, figures are included in the above table.

Irish Prison Service

Month	Internal	County	Open	County	Total Number of posts filled
Apr-20			2	Longford 1 Dublin 1	2
May-20			23	Dublin	23
Jun-20			26	Dublin 19 Longford 4 Laois 2 Roscommon 1	26
Jul-20	2	Longford	4	Dublin 3 Limerick 1	6
Aug-20	1	Longford	16	Dublin 8 Longford 2 Laois 3 Roscommon 1Limerick 1Cork 1	17
Sep-20			18	Dublin	18
Oct-20			20	Dublin 19 Longford 1	20
Nov-20			27	Dublin 26Laois 1	27
Dec-20			1	Longford	1
Jan-21			19	Dublin 18 Longford 1	19
Feb-21	2	Longford	7	Dublin 5 Longford 2	9
Mar-21	1	Longford	26	Dublin 22 Longford 3 Laois 1	27
Apr-21			17	Dublin	17
May-21			4	Dublin 2 Longford 1 Limerick 1	4
Total	6		210		216

An Garda Síochána

Month	Internal	County	Open	County	Total Number of posts filled
Apr-20			6	Dublin 5 Waterford 1	6
May-20			14	Dublin 11 Kerry 1 Waterford 1 Meath 1	14
Jun-20			18	Dublin 11 Waterford 1 Meath 2 Mayo 1Sligo 2 Donegal 1	18
Jul-20			31	Dublin 4 Kerry 2Cork 5Limerick 1 Tipperary 7 Laois 1Carlow 1 Kilkenny 1 Galway 1 Westmeath 1 Meath 3 Louth 1Mayo 1Sligo 1 Donegal 1	31
Aug-20			53	Dublin 10 Kerry 1 Waterford 3 Limerick 5 Clare 1 Tipperary 12 Carlow 1 Kilkenny 3 Wexford 1 Galway 2 Westmeath 1Meath 4 Louth 1 Monaghan 2 Mayo 4 Donegal 2	53
Sep-20			22	Dublin 8 Limerick 3 Clare 1 Tipperary 2 Laois 1 Galway 1 Meath 2 Mayo 3Sligo 1	22
Oct-20			33	Dublin 12 Cork 4 Clare 1 Tipperary 4 Roscommon 1 Westmeath 1 Meath 1 Monaghan 1 Longford 2 Mayo 5Sligo 1	33
Nov-20			24	Dublin 8 Cork 3 Kilkenny 1 Wexford 1 Wicklow 1 Galway 2Mayo 8	24
Dec-20			3	Dublin 2Cork 1	3
Jan-21			23	Dublin 12 Kerry 2 Waterford 1 Tipperary 5 Wexford 3	23
Feb-21			8	Dublin 4 Galway 2 Monaghan 1 Mayo 1	8
Mar-21			19	Dublin 13 Limerick 1 Tipperary 1 Wexford 1 Wicklow 1 Monaghan 1 Donegal 1	19
Apr-21			16	Dublin 10 Clare 1 Tipperary 2 Wexford 1 Monaghan 1 Mayo 1	16
May-21			14	Dublin 9 Waterford 3 Tipperary 1 Donegal 1	14
Total			284		284

Please note that the following bodies, agencies or offices did not fill any vacancies in the specified timeframe:

Legal Services Regulatory Authority

Judicial Council