Ms Fiona Tierney:

No. This is really important and perhaps I should have emphasised it more. The advertisements on publicjobs.ie and in newspapers will specify that we adhere to all the nine grounds of the Equality Act. We do not differentiate on the grounds of gender, age, nationality or anything else. We are blind to age in our office. When a client Department or agency approaches us to fill a role, age has nothing to do with the assignment process.