Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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571. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of recruitment to the public sector under the aegis of his Department since the partial lifting of the embargo on recruitment. [18251/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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As announced in Budget 2015, the moratorium and the Employment Control Framework for the Public Service have been lifted but recruitment/promotion will be subject to adherence to binding 3 year pay ceilings. Staffing resources must be managed within these overall ceilings. Detailed arrangements in terms of the local government sector and state agencies will be worked out between my Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Where a local authority or a state agency identifies a critical post that it cannot fill by way of re-organisation or re-assignment it may revert to my Department seeking sanction to fill the post. My Department examines all staffing sanction requests on a case by case basis having due regard to the continued delivery of key services in the context of staffing and budgetary constraints. In considering sanction requests public safety, maintaining key front line services and economic considerations are given precedence.

Although my Department oversees the sanctioning of posts, recruitment to these posts is a matter for each local authority and state agency.