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Tue 06 Jun 2009Number of State employees up by nearly 3,000
THE NUMBER of State employees, including those working in the health service, rose by nearly 3,000, but cuts have been made in the first three months of the year, official statistics reveal.
However, gross pay rates for State-employed workers rose above €50,000-a-year for the first time, up by 3.4 per cent in the 12 months to March.
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