Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the number of persons that are seeking re-deployment with the public appointment service broken down on a Department or agency basis; if he will outline who is eligible for redeployment under this system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2082/13]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The Public Service Agreement 2010-14 (Croke Park Agreement) provides for agreed redeployment arrangements to apply in the Civil Service and in other parts of the public service. Under the Agreement, redeployment generally takes precedence over all other methods of filling a vacancy and supersedes any existing agreements on the deployment of staff. It sets out the agreed redeployment arrangements within the Health, Education, and Local Authority sectors; and within and between the Civil Service and Non-commercial State Sponsored Bodies (NCSSB). It also provides that cross sectoral redeployments will follow the arrangements agreed for the NCSSBs.

The Public Appointments Service (PAS) has day-to-day operational responsibility for the implementation of redeployment and has put in place a system of Resource Panels of Civil Service and State Agency staff to support the redeployment processes in those sectors agreed under the Croke Park Agreement. Posts to be filled by redeployment are offered in the first instance to the relevant panel or panels. Full details of the protocols agreed with the staff unions in relation to the operation of those panels are set out in a “Redeployment Toolkit” which is available on my Department’s website at http://hr.per.gov.ie/redeployment/ .

The Public Appointments Service (PAS) have advised my Department of the number of posts in the Civil Service and Non-commercial Semi State Bodies that had been notified to it for inclusion on the Redeployment Panels in December 2012 and details are set out below. It is a matter for the employer to identify the number and grades of posts to be redeployed in the first instance and to upload the posts onto the PAS panels. Employers can do this early in the redeployment process to maximise the opportunities to place their staff. There is no set time-limit within which individuals awaiting redeployment must be redeployed.

Redeployment arrangements for the Education and Local Government sectors are managed separately by those sectors. However, to maximise the opportunities for the placement of staff and the filling of vacancies, the Education Sector has notified the PAS of 53 posts in that sector available for redeployment and the Local Authority has advised the PAS of 37 posts in that sector available for redeployment.