Action 18 of the Civil Service Renewal Plan 2014 committed to giving greater authority and flexibility to managers to enhance public services while reducing costs and increasing efficiencies within centrally determined expenditure limits and pay rates. This has involved the setting down of binding multi-annual pay allocations centrally which have replaced the Employment Control Framework for Departments as the basis for resource management. It has also involved delegating the scope to determine staffing levels and grade mix to Heads of Departments on a phased basis with the exception of Top Level Appointments Committee (TLAC) posts.
As a direct result of these delegated staffing arrangements, there have only been two requests to my Department for sanction to fill positions from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners since 1 January 2016, as detailed in the following table:
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Date of request
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Title of position
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No. of posts
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New or Existing
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Accepted/Refused
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15 July 2016
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Dog Handlers (Clerical Officer with an allowance)
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6
|
New
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Accepted
|
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27 February 2017
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State Solicitors - AP Higher level
|
4
|
New
|
Under Consideration
|
Further to these requests, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners has supplied the attached table of appointments made since 1 January 2016, which fall under the delegated staffing arrangements which are in place between my Department and that Office.
Revenue Appointments from Open Recruitment*
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Recruitment
|
|
Grade Level
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2016
|
2017 to 31 May
|
|
Principal
|
5(5)
|
2(2)
|
|
Assistant Principal
|
29(17)
|
13(10)
|
|
Solicitor
|
0
|
3(3)
|
|
Statistician
|
0
|
0
|
|
Economist
|
0
|
0
|
|
Administrative Officer
|
60(18)
|
5(4)
|
|
Higher Executive Officer
|
15(13)
|
36(29)
|
|
Executive Officer
|
207(67)
|
114(39)
|
|
Staff Officer
|
0
|
0
|
|
Clerical Officer
|
219
|
89
|
|
Service Officer
|
10
|
1
|
|
Totals
|
545(120)
|
263(87)
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* Brackets denotes staff already serving in Revenue
Revenue Internal Promotions
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Internal Promotions
|
|
Grade Level
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2016
|
2017 to 31 May
|
|
Principal
|
2
|
0
|
|
Assistant Principal
|
18
|
10
|
|
Higher Executive Officer
|
60
|
18
|
|
Executive Officer
|
84
|
42
|
|
Staff Officer
|
18
|
3
|
|
Clerical Officer
|
0
|
0
|
|
Service Officer
|
0
|
0
|
|
Total
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182
|
73
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