asked the Minister for Finance if he will state the number of civil servants in this country in 1932 and 1952.

The number of persons in the Civil Service of this country on the 1st January, 1932, was 21,793, and on the 1st January, 1952, was 36,512.

asked the Minister for Finance if he will state (1) the new Government services financed solely out of the Exchequer which have been established since 1939; (2) the total number of civil servants employed in such new Government services, (a) at the date of their establishment and (b) in 1952 and (3) the total annual remuneration for civil servants employed in such new Government services (a) for the first year of their establishment and (b) for 1952.

The assembling of the information requested by the Deputy will throw a considerable burden of work on Departments in which the new services have been established. I would be glad, therefore, if the Deputy would repeat the question in, say, a fortnight hence at the earliest.

asked the Minister for Finance if he will state (1) the number and (2) total annual remuneration of (a) established, (b) unestablishedand temporary and (c) part-time civil servants employed by the State in each of the following years, 1939, 1945 and 1952.

The particulars required by the Deputy, so far as they areavailable, are contained in a tabular statement which, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, will be included in the Official Report.

Following is the statement:—

*From the statistics available it is not possible to apportion these figures as between (b)and(c).

asked the Minister for Finance if he will state the number of civil servants who were in receipt of gross remuneration from State funds amounting to (a) over £2,000, (b) £1,500 to £2,000, and (c) £1,000 to £1,500 during the last 12-month period for which figures are available.

The particulars asked for are as follows (a) 77, (b) 260 and (c) 1,172.