Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 28 February 2019
225. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a grade 3 clerical officer in the Royal Irish Academy of Music who is at the top of the pay scale for their grade transfers from this organisation to a grade 4 assistant staff officer position in a local authority, if they will be placed on the bottom point of the assistant staff officer pay scale; and if so, the reason therefor (details supplied). [10053/19]
View answerIn relation to staff transfers between public service bodies, Circular 05/2016 provides that where the appointee has been serving elsewhere in the public service in an analogous grade and pay-scale, and will be moving without break to another part of the public service at an analogous grade, the appointment may be made at the appointee’s current point on the scale. In terms of transfers to local authorities from elsewhere in the public service, under section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, it is the Chief Executive of the Council who is responsible for staffing matters and the details of any such transfer. I understand that the grades in question are not analogous grades and therefore the provisions of the circular do not apply.
