Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 February 2005
502 Mr. Timmins asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of personnel who, on applying for promotion in her Department since January 2004, have been required to sign an agreement that they are willing to decentralise; how many of them refused to sign the agreement; if this impacted on their promotion or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4077/05]
View answerWith regard to internal promotion for administrative grades in my Department, since December 2003 all office notices inviting applications for promotion have referred to the Government's decentralisation programme and have stated that the acceptance of an offer of promotion from the competition may be conditional on the outcome of discussions taking place between the Department of Finance and the staff unions regarding promotion in the context of decentralisation. To date, no officers who have accepted substantive promotions from internal competitions have been required to give an undertaking with regard to decentralisation.
Since September 2004, 13 officers appointed from the Public Appointments Service and promoted and assigned to my Department have accepted decentralisation to either Mullingar or Athlone as a condition of same.
