Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 6:

In page 5, to delete lines 22 and 23 and substitute the following:

3.—Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended—(a) in subsection (2) by deleting paragraph (a), and

(b) by substituting the following for subsection (4):

“(4) Nothing in this section shall be read as affecting—

(a) the application of section 34(1)(i) to appointments to which this section applies, or

(b) the operation of Part 7A.”.

These amendments are to ensure that provisions in the principal Act do not cross-cut or affect the operation of Parts 6A and 7A. This amendment is necessary to facilitate the insertion of Part 7A into the Act. Section 7 sets out several provisions and appointments that are excluded from the provisions of the principal Act. It is proposed to amend the existing provisions of the Bill to ensure that when the exclusion process is being applied it will not affect the public appointment service, PAS, in its function of informing itself of best practice in regard to all recruitment assessment and selection matters and on the basis of this information to provide advice to the Civil Service and various public service bodies or the Minister in making regulations in regard to sick leave remuneration. That is the purpose of the amendment.

These amendments are designed to ensure that neither redeployment by the Public Appointment Service to unestablished excluded positions in the Civil Service nor the applicability of the new sick leave scheme require the separate sanction of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.

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