Vol. 443 No. 7
52 Mr. D. McDowell asked the Minister for Finance the reason the current disabled person's panel for appointment to the Civil Service is being abandoned in view of the fact that all those promised interviews have not yet been called.
Open competitions for the appointment of persons with disabilities to positions as clerical assistant and other grades in the Civil Service are held from to time by the Civil Service Commission. It is common practice in competitions generally for the panel from a previous competition to be discontinued by the Civil Service Commission when a new panel becomes available. This is to ensure that a successful candidate at a competition is not excluded for an unreasonable length of time from appointment due to the assignment of candidates from an earlier panel. The last competition for the appointment of persons with disabilities as clerical assistants was held in 1990 and a fresh competition is therefore appropriate at this stage. Appointments will continue to be made from the 1990 panel should suitable vacancies arise until the panel from the recently advertised competition has been set up. Apart from the highest placed qualifiers in the written examination at the 1990 competition candidates were given no promise that they would be called for interview.
