Tony Gregory (Dublin Central, Independent)
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Question 583: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the regulations for promotion within local authorities in order that all employees are treated equally and in particular since grade three clerical officers are no longer required to hold a leaving certificate and are eligible to apply for grade four, that grade three general operatives should no longer be excluded from interviews for grade four on the basis that they do not hold a leaving certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35206/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Posts at grade IV level, assistant staff officer, in local authorities are filled by a combination of open and confined competitions. In the case of open competitions, the educational qualifications for assistant staff officer posts currently declared by my Department require candidates to have obtained a certain standard in the leaving certificate or in an equivalent examination or hold a third level qualification of at least degree standard. Persons who are serving in one of the organisations which form part of the common recruitment pool and who have satisfactory experience in a post of clerical officer or in an analogous post are also eligible to compete for appointment.

In the case of confined competitions, candidates must be serving employees in a local authority or in one of the organisations within the common recruitment pool and must have at least two years' satisfactory experience as a clerical officer or in an analogous post. It is a matter for the employing authority to determine whether an applicant for a post of assistant staff officer possesses the qualifications declared for that post.