Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 May 2014
255. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will arrange for a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath to be redeployed from the Department of Education and Skills in Dublin to a position closer to home in Mullingar, County Westmeath. [22769/14]
View answerThe Department is not currently in a position to place staff on the redeployment resource panel as we are operating within our Employment Control Framework (ECF). The Public Service Agreements (PSAs) provide for agreed redeployment arrangements to apply in the Civil Service. The arrangements note that "while staff may be moved between different locations as a consequence of the redeployment arrangements – beyond the 45km radius set out under the PSAs in certain circumstances – the arrangements were not designed for and are not used to facilitate requests from individuals for transfers to address personal circumstances".
From time to time, in order to meet our Employment Control Framework numbers or to cater for changes to this Departments work practices under the Government Reform Programme, my Department circulates redeployment notifications to staff seeking volunteers. Any offers of redeployment made to our staff on foot of such circulations, are considered on a case by case basis subject to the business needs of this Department. I regret the Department is not in a position to arrange to redeploy the individual staff member referred to outside of agreed agreements and protocols and the staff member has been advised of the position on a number of occasions.
