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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 48 and 49, to insert the following:“(2) Any employee who is subject to compulsory redeployment, following the expiration of the Haddington Road Agreement, shall have a right of appeal of such redeployment to a designated officer of the Public Appointments Commission.”.Perhaps the Minister can respond to this amendment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister explain the difference between the procedure that has been operated for the past two and a half years under the Croke Park agreement and the new one under the Haddington Road agreement? What is the difference?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: Unchanged.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I wish to withdraw the amendment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:“(3) Employees who are subject to redeployment shall be afforded the right to obtain appropriate training for his or her new role within six months of the employee’s redeployment, and the completion of such training shall be verified by the Public Appointments Commission.”.I would like the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: We will give that service a fair chance so I am withdrawing the amendment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I have taken note of that.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 3: In page 7, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“(5) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the enactment of this Act, bring forward a report on the feasibility of the Public Appointments Commission establishing a process whereby employees who wish to voluntarily transfer to a new role within the public service may be matched up with another employee...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I understand that, too. The second question concerns people who want to transfer to the new shared services. I am thinking in particular of local authorities. Fortunately, Laois was granted the shared services for all local authority payrolls. I have already been contacted by people working in other local authorities who want to transfer in due course when the system gets up and running....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: They will drop a grade to get home.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: Is there a mechanism in place within the local authorities? There was a central applications facility. Is there a system in place to which people can apply? How does a person set about trying to get there?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: There is no central applications facility.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: My last question concerns people transferring from one body to another. I can think of a particular case where they are not being given credit for their years in the previous public sector body. Is that happening much? I am told the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is holding up some of these issues.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: Is the Houses of the Oireachtas included in the definition under section 1? I ask that question in the context of the possible transfer from a public body to the position of Secretary General - Clerk of the Dáil. How would that fit in with this legislation?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: What about the position of Clerk of the Dáil?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I agree with the principle of open and public competition in respect of the position. Will the competition by conducted by the Houses of the Oireachtas as opposed to a group of Secretaries General, etc.? It is a public body and the competition should be conducted by the Oireachtas.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I might table an amendment on Report Stage to deal with the issue.

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I have quite a number of observations and will ask the Minister to read specifically what I have to say. I will be proposing a number of amendments on Committee Stage. The Minister has published new legislation on what he calls the restoration and extension of freedom of information. He has made a number of claims about the benefits of the...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: We will come to that issue and debate it. I listened carefully to what the Minister said and I am responding to it. It is clear that nobody told the public that freedom of information was abolished and that nobody told the Information Commissioner. The Minister considers he has to restore freedom of information. In that context, let me refer to the annual report for 2011 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: US Surveillance in EU Institutions (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the European External Action Service still has not received clarification from the United States authorities in relation to alleged surveillance by the United States at European Union offices; the reason he has not received clarification from the United States embassy in Dublin in relation to these allegations;...