Written answers

Tuesday, 21 October 2014

Department of Health

Departmental Staff Redeployment

Photo of Dara CallearyDara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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477. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, the number of civil servants in his Department who have designated a County Mayo venue as their preference for a transfer; the numbers who have moved to the county in each year since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40898/14]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Staff who were interested in transfers to regional offices could historically seek such transfers through the Central Transfer Lists or the Central Applications Facility which was maintained in the context of the decentralisation programme. The only mechanisms for staff to register an interest in being transferred to a regional location is through application to another Department with an office in that location or application through their Staff Association for a head to head swap. Staff may also now apply for any one of the many re-deployment vacancies advertised in the Public Service through the Public Appointments Service. This Department does not maintain a list of all such applications and many of them are not required to be notified to the Department. Hence, it is not possible to say the number of civil servants in my Department who have indicated a preference for a transfer to a Mayo location.

However, I can confirm that no staff have transferred from my Department to Offices/Departments in County Mayo since 2011.

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