The following table provides details of expenditure by my Department in respect of payroll for civil servants in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to 30 November 2019. The table also provides details of the number of civil servants employed by my Department in each of the years covered by the Deputy's question and at 30 November 2019. To reflect the fact that a number of civil servants are availing of schemes which permit reduced patterns of attendance, I have also included details of the whole time equivalent posts in my Department for each of the years in question. The expenditure includes provision for pay adjustments in accordance with the Public Service Stability Agreement.
Year
|
Payroll Expenditure
|
No. of Staff
|
2014
|
€17.053m
|
365 (343.04 WTE)
|
2015
|
€17.236m
|
354 (331.41 WTE)
|
2016
|
€17.107m
|
362 (339.12 WTE)
|
2017
|
€17.161m
|
351 (328.47 WTE)
|
2018
|
€17.651m
|
357 (338.71 WTE)
|
2019 (30 November)
|
€17.041m
|
371 (353.61 WTE)
|