Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 5 December 2012
30. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be given a position in the social welfare office either in Mullingar or Longford, further to their approval for re-deployment recently. [54657/12]
View answerThe person referred to is currently employed by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and consideration is currently being given to an application to have her re-graded to the position of Clerical Officer. If this application is successful, the CSO propose to arrange to have her post included on the Public Appointments Service (PAS) Resource Panel of Civil Service staff, which has been put in place to support the redeployment arrangements agreed under the Croke Park Agreement.
It should be noted that while staff may be moved between different locations as a consequence of the redeployment arrangements, they were not designed as a staff mobility scheme. The purpose of the Resource Panel arrangements is to facilitate the targeted reduction in public service numbers in the period 2010 to 2014 while sustaining the ongoing delivery of services. Under the arrangements, redeployment opportunities are offered locally in the first instance, within the various sectors (e.g. health, education, local authority, etc.). Where staff are not available for redeployment in a particular location, the post, if approved for filling by my Department, may be offered to staff who had already indicated an interest in transferring there.
