Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Michael Walsh:

The fact that they are permanent positions means that we have to follow fairly direct lines. We will accelerate it. I can assure the committee that local authorities across the board, in this situation last year in particular, would have done recruitment campaigns in six weeks. However, to be fair, if one wants to get the best people in this instance, I think we have to advertise. We are hitting a sort of holiday period now. Appropriately, there will not be any delays on the recruitment itself, but even then I am being realistic, because even if one offers a job to somebody now, in terms of getting them to move, they have to give notice periods in their own employments. Otherwise, I think we have to be realistic.

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