Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 20 March 2018
440. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department who entered the Civil Service via a route other than through an open competition run by the Public Appointments Service or its predecessors; the grades of each; and the basis for the non-standard recruitment. [11860/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraIt is my Department’s policy to engage staff through open Public Appointments Service competitions or through civil or public service mobility programmes including redeployment, secondment, Agencies subsumed etc. The Department does not directly recruit staff with the exception of Ministerial personal appointees who are engaged in accordance with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidelines.
There are currently three staff members employed in the Department who were not engaged as per the arrangements outlined above as follows:
The Department appointed an Interim Disability Appeals Officer in accordance with section 9 (1) of the Schedule to the Disability Act 2005 pending the recruitment of a Disability Appeals Officer through an open competition run by the Public Appointments Service.
One staff member at Assistant Principal Officer level was awarded a Contract of Indefinite Duration.
One staff member was recruited by the Office of Public Works and subsequently transferred to this Department.
