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- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Yes, it was.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We will give the Senator the salacious details later.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I am listening.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Senators have noted there may be issues around the financial powers of oversight and management by the court that the House might need to refer to on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: There may be issues around amendment No. 244 which have not been put forward and which Senators might raise on Report Stage. I want to allude to those so they can be looked at on Report Stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: What Ms Tierney has said is very interesting. I will pick up on the Gaeilge because it is an area of particular interest. Of the 127 people in the Public Appointments Service, how many are functional linguists?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Who stipulates which jobs? As part of the review of the 20-year strategy of the Official Languages Act, all Departments were asked which posts were eligible for these functional linguists. Some Departments advised that none of the posts in their Departments had any need for a functional linguist. Who determines that? Does the Department approach the Public Appointments Service with a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Public Appointments Service obviously does not cover teachers for schools.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: 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?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: If the Public Appointments Service saw something like that on a job specification, would it advise the Department that it could not include that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The types of qualifications and degrees people have might have changed. Obviously, the Public Appointments Service will not discriminate against someone on the basis of age. If a Department were to define a relatively newly introduced qualification as a prerequisite for the job, would that be seen as being discriminatory against somebody who might have considerable experience in an area but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Ms Tierney is probably aware of the huge issue around gender in third level institutions. Is a gender quota ever imposed to increase, mainly, the number of women in some positions where it is found that there is an imbalance in the gender representation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I would be interested to get a breakdown of the statistics at the different grades to see that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: If an imbalance was noticed at principal officer grade with, for example, 70% male and 30% female, and the Government decided it wanted to introduce quotas because it felt there was an imbalance and it was structural, is it legally possible to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That is very interesting. All other things being equal, if there were two candidates, one male and one female, gender cannot be used as grounds for a decision.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Another issue which has come up in a number of cases in the HSE is geography. Can geography be laid down as a prerequisite as regards employment of a person for a particular job?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is similar to that. I was thinking about the HSE, which has a number of regions, and I was wondering whether it is stipulated that a person must be available in a particular region.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is only the senior levels in the HSE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Are they all national positions?