Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 133: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will amend rules so that when an employee or volunteer has received clearance from the Garda Vetting Unit in the recent past, this can be transferred if the employee moves to a different organisation. [23584/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy may be aware, the Garda Central Vetting Unit (GCVU) provides employment vetting for over 19,000 organisations in Ireland who are registered with the Gardaí for this purpose and which employ/engage persons in a full-time, part-time, voluntary or training capacity to positions where they would have substantial, unsupervised access to children and/or vulnerable adults. Garda vetting certificates are issued to specified registered organisations in respect of a particular post or employment in response to a written request and with the permission of the person who is the subject of that request. The present turnaround time for receipt of vetting is three weeks which I consider is well within acceptable limits.

The Garda Vetting certificate is non-transferable. It is important to emphasise that it is a disclosure to the requesting, registered organisation of the position at the time when it is issued. As non-transferability protects against the risk of fraud or forgery of such certificates and is a guarantee of the integrity of the vetting system, there are no plans to amend current procedures.