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Public sevrants - are these numbers right?

  • 15-03-2010 10:09PM
    #1
    grizzly
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    280,000 Irish public servants, compared to 533,300 UK public servants? I know due to economies of scale the UK can get greater efficiency out of there workforce with less workers, but surly this isn't right?


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  • #2
    jayboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭jayboi


    There are 5.8m in the public service in the uk of those 520,000 work in the civil service.

    Heres a link
    http://www.civilservant.org.uk/numbers.pdf


  • #3
    changes
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    grizzly wrote: »
    280,000 Irish public servants, compared to 533,300 UK public servants? I know due to economies of scale the UK can get greater efficiency out of there workforce with less workers, but surly this isn't right?

    The UK have roughly 20% of their workforce working as Public servants compared to 17% in ireland pre-resession.


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