Vol. 460 No. 4
91 Mr. Dempsey asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the reason a person (details supplied) in County Louth who was recently promoted from a Grade Two to a Grade Three in a semi-State organisation (details supplied) will not be recognised as a Grade Three in the Civil Service for pension, promotion and other purposes. [1534/96]
The officer in question has been on secondment from my Department to the semi-State organisation named, since September 1992. Since his secondment, he has been promoted within that organisation from Inspector Grade III to Inspector Grade II. He has since indicated a desire to leave the organisation and to return to the Civil Service. If this were to happen, it could occur only on the basis that the officer involved would return to the Civil Service at the grade level he occupied on his departure. The grade to which he was promoted in the Health and Safety Authority is not a Civil Service grade and cannot be retained if he should return to the Civil Service.
