Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions
Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service
4:00 pm
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein)
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That is a separate issue. That is an issue that has been through the courts recently. A Department may decide it wants, to put it crudely, new blood in the system. It might feel it has an ageing cohort working in the system and it might like for some reason to have younger people. Can it stipulate that?