Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 3:

In page 7, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“(5) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the enactment of this Act, bring forward a report on the feasibility of the Public Appointments Commission establishing a process whereby employees who wish to voluntarily transfer to a new role within the public service may be matched up with another employee who is willing to transfer in the opposite direction.”.

Apart from giving a standard reply, I ask the Minister to deal with the issue of employees who wish to transfer to a new role within the public service. I am thinking of two areas. People have contacted me who want to transfer within the public service. They are transferring from a Department that is over its employment framework number, yet they are still not being allowed to go. The Department does not want to let them go for a particular reason.