Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of contracts of indefinite duration sought and the number granted in the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 in the public sector under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38841/14]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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A number of contracts of indefinite duration were awarded to Temporary Clerical Officers (TCOs) in my Department in the years in question. Five TCOs employed in the Passport Office in Dublin were awarded such contracts with effect from 1 July 2008; three of these officers have since retired. Four TCOs employed in the Passport Office in Dublin were awarded such contracts with effect from 3 November 2008.

Eight locally recruited TCOs employed in the Embassy in London were awarded such contracts with effect from 14 May 2010; two of these officers have since resigned.

Ten former TCOs employed on fixed-term contracts in the Passport Office in Dublin were awarded contracts of indefinite duration in July 2009 and redeployed to the Department of Social Protection.

One former TCO who was awarded a contract of indefinite duration by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine transferred to the Passport Office in Cork on 7 June 2011.