Micheál Carrigy
Question:185. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Defence the number of civil and public servants employed by her Department in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [33948/26]
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The table below provides a breakdown of the number of civil and public servants employed by my Department in each of the past ten years. The number of Civil Servants includes 16 civil servants employed to work directly for the Defence Forces at a number of military installations. Among those are 2 at Assistant Secretary grade; the Head of Strategic HR and the Head of Transformation, both of whom are members of the Defence Forces Board.
|
Year |
Civil Servants |
Civilian Employees |
Permanent Defence Forces |
|
2015 |
360 |
491 |
9140 |
|
2016 |
369 |
487 |
9126 |
|
2017 |
359 |
469 |
9173 |
|
2018 |
360 |
430 |
8957 |
|
2019 |
376 |
451 |
8659 |
|
2020 |
374 |
456 |
8568 |
|
2021 |
392 |
450 |
8456 |
|
2022 |
398 |
424 |
7966 |
|
2023 |
418 |
437 |
7550 |
|
2024 |
458 |
433 |
7557 |
|
2025 |
499 |
424 |
7756 |