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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 30 Jan 2001

Vol. 529 No. 1

Written Answers. - Departmental Staff.

John Perry

Question:

470 Mr. Perry asked the Minister for Finance if he will intervene with the Civil Service Commission on behalf of a person (details supplied) and grant her a transfer on compassionate grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1099/01]

Transfers to provincial locations, such as Sligo, are arranged in accordance with an agreement reached with the staff side at general council under the conciliation and arbitration scheme for the Civil Service. An officer's placing on the transfer list for a particular location is fixed in order of date of receipt of the application in the Department concerned.

The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, in which the person concerned is employed, operates a system whereby officers are required to serve for two years before a transfer application may be considered. In this case, the officer was assigned to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on 2 October 2000. When the two year period is completed, and should the applicant's placing on the transfer list be reached, the officer may then be considered for transfer. However, where compassionate circumstances of an exceptional nature exist, priority may be allowed to an applicant for trans fer subject to the agreement of both Departments concerned and of the relevant union.
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