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Public Service Agreement 2010-2014 (Croke Park Agreement) Part B - Saving Verificiation - Central Statistics Office | |||
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Terms of Agreement 2010 - 2014 (refer to all relevant paragraphs) |
Action Implemented | Specific Target Dates | Description of the Benefits Achieved: this should include, where possible, a qualitative description including (i) Reduction in numbers (WTE) employed on activity (ii) Paybill savings (iii) Non-Pay Savings and/or (iv) Actual Costs Avoided |
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1.3
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Total Reduction in Employee Numbers
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Achieved to end Q1 2011 | Core Numbers as at Q1 2010 690 Core Numbers as at Q1 2011 667 Change in Year to 31 March 2011: Minus 23 Note: Core numbers exclude staff assigned on a short-term project basis to the Census of Population. Including cyclical project staff, total numbers increased from 747 in Q1/2010 to 783 in Q1/2011 (+ 36). |
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4.4
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(CSO Action 1) Further advance the structural and operational recommendations made by the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes. (2010-2014)
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Achieved to date in 2010 & 2011 | Savings identified in CSO Action Plan are being delivered in full. 2010: €3m saved (exceeding McCarthy recommendation). €2.7m of this is ongoing structural saving. 2011: Further ongoing core saving of €1.5m, comprising €850,000 in overhead costs and €650,000 of output reduction. Once-off savings of €4.7m in 2011 in Census of Population project costs. |
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4.10
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(CSO Action 12) Rationalise the Directorate structure of the CSO, reducing from six to four directorate posts, and implement a reduced divisional structure, as identified in the PBOD.
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2010 | Implemented October 2010: Reduction of two posts at Directorate level. Saving in 2010 of approx. €55,000. Full year saving in 2011 of €215,000. |
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4.4
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(CSO Action 15) Where surpluses are identified (due to imbalance of workloads, short-term peaks / valleys, efficiency gains from process improvements / new work practices etc.), actively re-assign staff as necessary, including assignment between field and office-based work where appropriate. (2010-2014)
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Achieved to date in 2010 & 2011 | Peak processing requirements for Census of Population 2011 are being met by short-term assignment of surplus staff from other Departments and, once this staffing route was exhausted, by employing temporary clerical staff. The assignment of 30 staff from other Departments has enabled cost reduction in their parent Departments; these staff will need to be re-assigned (some returning to their original Departments) in 2012. |
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Terms of Agreement 2010 - 2014 (refer to all relevant paragraphs) |
Action Implemented | Specific Target Date | Description of the Benefits Achieved: this should include, where possible, a qualitative description including (i) Reduction in numbers (WTE) employed on activity (ii) Paybill savings (iii) Non-Pay Savings and/or (iv) Actual Costs Avoided |
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1.10
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(CSO Action 5) In business statistics further advance the use of administrative data sources, electronic data capture and linkage between data sources.
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Achieved to date in 2010 & 2011 | Business Field Force which had been employed on a temporary basis each year, abolished in October 2010 as part of re-engineering of business surveys: Saving of €309,000 per annum under Subhead A08. |
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Terms of Agreement 2010 - 2014 (refer to all relevant paragraphs) |
Action Implemented | Specific Target Date | Description of the Benefits Achieved: this should include, where possible, a qualitative description including (i) Reduction in numbers (WTE) employed on activity (ii) Paybill savings (iii) Non-Pay Savings and/or (iv) Actual Costs Avoided |
