682. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of vacancies, by grade, currently within her Department; and the estimated timeframe for filling each of the vacancies, in tabular form. [46386/24]

There are 17 vacancies in my Department, the majority have arisen following a number of recent internal promotions and staff turnover.

These vacancies will be filled as soon as possible through available recruitment methods for the Civil Service including publicjobs.ie and mobility.