Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What happens is that Departments will look at how successful they have been in the number of applications they receive for different posts, and that tends to be the main metric against which advertising campaigns are evaluated. If we look at where we are now in this regard, at the end of quarter 3, 90% of the campaigns that were run by the Public Appointments Service were delivered within the timescales that were agreed with their clients, and for the Top Level Appointments Committee, the equivalent figure was 83%, with a target of 80%. If we look at the requests that recruitment bodies have to run campaigns for State bodies, we have seen in the local government recruitment team, for example, an increase of 73.9% in requests for new competitions and it has advertised 22% more competitions overall. Therefore, it appears that the work these bodies do on behalf of the State is well received. Overall, as was seen in many cases, these campaigns seem to have been delivered on time and there is decent interest in the campaigns that are being run.