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Departmental Staff Redeployment

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 3 July 2014

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Questions (84)

Terence Flanagan

Question:

84. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process involved regarding the transfer of staff from one Department to another; the role his Department plays; if there is a backlog of applications from various Departments; if he will provide in tabular format if there is a backlog and to estimate as to when it will be dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28748/14]

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There are no formal arrangements in place within the Civil Service to facilitate requests for transfers to other locations/employments, except in the case of grades represented by the Civil & Public Services Union.

Transfers for these (mostly Clerical and Staff Officers) are arranged in accordance with formal procedures agreed with the Staff Side at General Council under the Conciliation and Arbitration Scheme for the Civil Service.

Transfers between other grades in the Civil Service can be arranged on an informal, head-to-head, basis. Such transfers are arranged between the officers seeking to move and the relevant Personnel Units and require the agreement of both Personnel Officers.

As arrangements for the transfer of specific individuals are a matter for the employer concerned the detailed information requested by the Deputy in his question is not collected on a routine basis by my Department. 

The Public Service Agreements (PSAs) covering the period 2010-16 (the Croke Park and Haddington Road Agreements) provide for agreed redeployment arrangements to apply in the Civil Service and in other parts of the Public Service.  The Agreements facilitate the transfer of staffing resources from organisations where activities have assumed lesser priority arising from changing business needs, or as a result of the rationalisation, reconfiguration or restructuring of public service bodies, to organisations that are facing increasing demands for its services and consequential resource pressures.

A "Redeployment Toolkit" setting out the background and the detailed processes involved has been agreed with the staff unions and is available at  http://hr.per.gov.ie/redeployment/.

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