asked the Minister for Finance if he will state the number of appointments (permanent and temporary) made to the Civil Service by methods other than competitive examinations, since 1939, and the grades to which these appointments were made.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Civil Service Positions.
The answer to the Deputy's question is in the form of a tabular statement which will be circulated with the Official Report.
The following is the statement:—
Appointments made from 1st January, 1939, to 1st November, 1945, to posts in the Civil Service otherwise than by competitive examinations.
I. Permanent posts. Appointments made under Section 6 (2) of the Civil Service Regulation Act, 1924, as amended by Section 3 of the Civil Service Regulation Act, 1926.
2 Junior marketing inspectors.
1 Higher executive officer.
3 Clerical officers.
1 Employment clerk.
1 Deputy assistant director Ordnance Survey.
1 Superintendent Ordnance Survey.
3 Technical assistants Ordnance Survey.
4 Meteorological officers.
1 Airport manager.
2 Air traffic control officers.
1 Chief aeronautical officer.
4 Wireless supervisors.
50 Wireless operators.
1 Chief superintendent of divisions, Office of Public Works.
1 Agricultural instructor.
1 Officer of Customs and Excise.
1 Typist.
1 Fitter, Dundrum Asylum.
10 Attendants, Dundrum Asylum.
NOTE.—In addition to the above, 54 officers, who had originally been appointed to Civil Service posts by open competitive examinations and whose services ceased on ill health, marriage or resignation to enter religion, were subsequently reinstated on recovery of health, on widowhood, or because they did not find themselves suited to the religious life, during the period referred to.
II. Unestablished or temporary posts.
1 Genealogical officer.
1 Herald painter.
1 Typist.
1 Housing inspector.
2 Writing assistants.
1 Film Censor.
15 Temporary inspectors, rural improvements schemes (a) (b).
1 Adviser on migratory labour (b).
1 Geophysicist (a).
1 Research chemist, Industrial Research Council.
67 Aviation radio operators (25b).
33 Engineers and assistant engineers (18a) (4b).
20 Engineering draughtsmen (10a) (11b).
17 Clerks of works (8b).
1 Works clerk.
25 Architects and assistant architects (16b).
9 Temporary architectural assistants (8b).
20 Asylum attendants (a) (18b).
1 Part-time editor of dictionary.
1 Assistant to editor of dictionary.
1 Temporary assistant teacher housewifery.
1 Part-time professor of sculpture (c).
2 Farm managers (1a).
4 Housemasters (3a) (1c).
2 Flax inspectors.
12 Lay inspectors (pigs and bacon) (2b).
1 Junior horticultural inspector (a).
2 Junior agricultural inspectors (a) (1b).
32 Assistant agricultural overseers (either (a) or (d)—all (b)).
26 Tillage inspectors (b) (d).
3 Technical assistants (a) (b).
1 Cereals inspector (a).
4 Allotments inspectors (2a) (2c).
19 Teachers of dairying or poultry-keeping and butter-making (10a) (17b) (9c).
2 Assistants to supervisor egg-laying competition (a) (1b).
2 Assistants poultry section Spring Show (b) (d).
5 Junior dairy produce inspectors (d) (4b).
11 Lime subsidy supervisors (d) (5b).
6 Announcers (a) (b).
2 Reporters (a) (b).
1 Special commissioner income-tax (appointed under Section 67 of Income Tax Act, 1918 —appointment notified to Oireachtas).
6 Assistant solicitors (1a) (3b).
3 Law clerks (1b).
1 Temporary translator (a) (b).
9 Temporary chemists (either (a) or (d)—all (b)).
3 Investigation officers (b).
1 Furniture clerk.
1 Temporary probation officer (a).
65 Prison warders and wardresses (35b).
(a) Temporary appointment made pending the filling of the post by competition held by the Civil Service Commissioners.
(b) Appointment ceased prior to 1st November, 1945, owing to filling of post through competition held by the Civil Service Commissioners or to the suppression of the post or through resignation, etc., of a person appointed in a temporary capacity.
(c) Appointment made by way of substitution during the absence of the holder of the post.
(d) Appointments made for seasonal work.
In the following temporary grades the numbers vary considerably and the work is almost entirely seasonal. It would not be possible, without a disproportionate expenditure of time and effort, to state how many persons were appointed to these grades, as the number serving fluctuates according to needs. The following particulars representative of the position generally, are, however, available:—
|
Grade |
Maximum No. serving at any one time |
No. serving on 1st Nov., 1945 |
|
Farm Improvements Supervisor |
221 (1944 & 1945) |
217 |
|
Tillage Supervisor (first recruited 1942) |
220 (1945) |
57 |
|
Allotments Instructor |
23 (1944) |
Nil |
|
Spraying Demonstra- tor |
21 (1943 & 1944) |
Nil |
|
Potato Inspector |
17 (1943 & 1945) |
Nil |
TEMPORARY CLERICAL ASSISTANTS.
Prior to the emergency it was not the practice to employ temporary clerical staff except for seasonal work, e.g., in the employment exchanges. Towards the end of 1941, however, it became necessary in view of the setting up of new temporary services and the expansion of other services to cope with emergency problems, to recruit temporary clerical assistants through the employment exchanges. As in the case of the other grades above, particulars of the total number of persons appointed could not be obtained without great difficulty, but the numbers serving on 1st November, 1945, are 629 males and 990 females, including those employed in the employment exchanges, together with typing, etc., staff in offices abroad, and 24 officers on loan from the Electricity Supply Board and the Irish Assurance Company, Limited.
NOTE.—The foregoing statement does not include appointments to posts included in the Schedule to the Civil Service Regulation Act, 1924, being posts which are not required to be filled by competition—see Section 10 of the Civil Service Regulation Act, 1924. A number of temporary or unestablished posts in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, e.g., temporary postmen, post office clerks and telephonists, auxiliary postmen, scale payment sub-postmasters, etc., have also been permanently added to the Schedule by the Civil Service Commissioners under the powers conferred by Section 10 (2) of the Civil Service Regulation Act, 1924, and appointments to these posts have not been included.
The statement includes all other appointments to temporary or unestablished posts, including appointments where the holding of a competition would not be justified in view of the short duration of the employment, or where a competition would be impracticable, as in cases where a temporary appointment had to be made to fill a vacancy pending the holding of a competition by the Civil Service Commissioners. In such cases an order was made by the Civil Service Commissioners adding the post temporarily to the Schedule to the Civil Service Regulation Act, 1924. In many of these cases the posts were advertised by the Department in question and appointments were made through competition (usually interview) carried out by the Department. The first seven appointments on the list were made under Section 6 (2) of the Civil Service Regulation Act, 1924, as amended by Section 3 of the Civil Service Regulation Act, 1926.