Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 June 2012
198 Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in his Department’s redeployment pool, including agencies responsible to it, that is, those persons who are to be redeployed as their current role is no longer necessary, but have not been redeployed as of yet. [30477/12]
Amharc ar fhreagra203 Deputy John Deasy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons employed in his Department and in agencies under his aegis that are in the redeployment pool; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30602/12]
Amharc ar fhreagra222 Deputy Patrick O’Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons within his Department or within agencies under his aegis that are awaiting redeployment; the maximum period of time that a person has been waiting for redeployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30819/12]
Amharc ar fhreagraI propose to take Questions Nos. 198, 202 and 203 together.
The Public Service Agreement 2010-14 (Croke Park Agreement) provides for agreed redeployment arrangements to apply in most parts of the public service, and for these arrangements to take precedence over other methods of filling vacancies.
In the Education sector new redeployment procedures for second level teachers were implemented in advance of the 2011/2012 school year resulting in the elimination of a surplus of some 200 teachers. 62 teachers at post primary level were surplus to requirements this year and have been successfully redeployed in advance of the commencement of the 2012/13 school year.
Redeployment procedures at primary level were implemented in advance of the 2011/12 school year with some 950 surplus teachers re-deployed. A total of 463 primary teachers were surplus to requirements this year and to date 395 have been redeployed to other schools or were assigned to new permanent or fixed term vacancies in their own school. Accordingly, there are currently 68 teachers at primary level awaiting re-deployment and it is anticipated that all of these teachers will be redeployed in advance of the 2012/13 school year.
Furthermore, the Public Appointments Service (PAS) has put in place a system of Resource/Redeployment Panels to support the redeployment processes in those sectors, including the Education sector, agreed under the Public Service Agreement. This system is utilised to facilitate the re-deployment of staff (other than teachers and SNAs) in the Education sector. There are currently 26 staff from the Education sector on the Public Appointments Service (PAS) Redeployment panel pending their re-deployment to an alternative permanent position elsewhere in the public service. The maximum period of time that a person from the Education sector has been on the PAS resource panel awaiting permanent re-deployment is approximately 10 months.
199 Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding quantity surveyors in his Department; if there are vacancies for such positions; and if so, the way in which a person can apply for such positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30502/12]
Amharc ar fhreagraThere are currently five Senior Quantity Surveyors assigned to the School Planning and Building Unit of my Department that are engaged on the Schools Capital Building Programme. There are no plans to recruit additional Quantity Surveyors at this time.
In the event such a fillable vacancy arises at my Department the Public Appointments Service (PAS), which was established under the terms of the Public Service management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004, would be contacted in order to establish if there was an official on the Redeployment Panel that could be assigned to the vacant position. In the event this does not address the matter the PAS would then be requested to conduct a recruitment competition on behalf of my Department.
