Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 175: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give a guarantee that the 150 persons who were offered training places in An Garda Síochána in the most recent recruitment programme and who were not allowed to proceed due to the suspension of Garda training, will be given priority in any future recruitment programme; and if there are any specific steps envisaged for this group. [35366/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Garda Authorities that there is a Garda recruitment panel currently in place consisting of applicants selected by the Public Appointments Service as part of a 2008 recruitment campaign. However, no offers of employment have been made to applicants since the introduction of the public service moratorium on recruitment in 2009.

The moratorium on recruitment remains in place in furtherance of the objective, set in the context of the agreement with the EU and the IMF, to reduce the numbers of public servants. While successful applicants on this panel currently remain eligible to be offered positions as trainee Gardaí, the lifetime of the panel, and the position of applicants on it, will be kept under review in the light of when Garda recruitment might recommence.