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

Ms Fiona Tierney:

I do not know if I would use the word "prerequisite" but we advertise vacancies on a regional basis. When we ran the clerical officer competition for the Civil Service, for example, we set out nine different regions for which people could indicate a preference. We then approached them and said we have a job in, for example, Killarney and asked them if they were interested because they are on the panel for that region. Does this answer the question?