asked the Minister for Finance whether the Civil Service Commission will make provision to ensure that advertisements for posts in the Civil Service are so framed as to allow time for Irish people overseas to learn of such posts and to apply for them in good time.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Civil Service Posts.
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When the Civil Service Commission anticipate that persons resident abroad may be interested in a Civil Service post being advertised, an appropriately long period, sometimes five or six weeks, is allowed for the receipt of applications. In addition, certain posts are advertised in appropriate technical or professional journals or other publications circulating outside this country.
In view of the reply given to an earlier question to the Taoiseach in respect of the Local Appointments Commission, would the Minister agree to look into this matter further to ensure that people outside this country are given adequate opportunity to apply for these posts, which is not the case at present?
The practice followed by the two commissions is the same, so the Deputy may take it that if any change is made in one it will be made in the other.
Would the Minister extend the number of periodicals in which advertisements are placed? It is the practice of the Local Appointments Commission to confine advertisements to a few periodicals only.
The advertisements appear only in such periodicals as are likely to be read by people abroad who would be interested in such posts. I have not received any complaints that the practice in that regard has been unsatisfactory.