68. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants at work here in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019. [24665/19]

The number of civil servants, excluding civil service industrials, (on a full-time equivalents or FTE basis)  employed across the Civil Service in each of the years from 2015 to 2018, and in the first quarter of 2019, the most recent quarter returned, is set out in the following table.