Written answers

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Department of Finance

Public Sector Staff Recruitment

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of recruitment under the aegis of his Department to the public sector since the partial lifting of the embargo on recruitment. [18252/15]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that in respect of my Department the following recruitment took place from 1st December 2014 to 30th April 2015.

1st Dec. - 31st Dec. 2014 - 2 staff were recruited, 1 at Higher Executive Officer level and 1 at Statistician level, from the Central Statistics Office.  

1st Jan. 2015 - 30th April 2015 - 29 staff were recruited, 1 at Assistant Principal level, 11 at Administrative Officer level, 5 at Clerical Officer level, 1 at Service Officer level, 1 Specialist from KPMG and 10 temporary Clerical Officers recruited for the Banking Inquiry. In addition 4 staff have accepted offers of employment and are due to start in the coming weeks.

The filling of all senior posts in my Department are advertised and conduced by the Public Appointments Service.

In addition to the recruitment within my own Department I have been advised of the following recruitment in respect of bodies under the aegis of my Department, since the lifting of the embargo:

Comptroller and Auditor General: Two trainee auditors have been hired in 2015. This is the CandAG's entry grade.

Central Bank of Ireland: The Central Bank was not subject to the recruitment embargo. Since 1 December 2014, the Bank has recruited 113 external candidates to fill vacancies. In some cases, it is still awaiting the person to start but offers have been accepted.

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Dr. Íde Kearney was appointed as a Member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council on 12 March 2015.  The IFAC has advertised to fill the role of Research Assistant and expects an appointment will be will be made shortly.

NTMA: The recruitment embargo does not apply to the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA). The NTMA also assigns staff to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) and the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI).  All NAMA and SBCI staff are employees of the NTMA. NAMA and the SBCI reimburse the NTMA in respect of the costs of these staff.  Staff assigned to NAMA are employed on the basis of specified purpose contracts - their employment lasts for as long as their role is required by NAMA - or fixed term contracts.  Net recruitment by the NTMA from 1 January to 30 April 2015 is as follows: NTMA (ex NAMA and SBCI), 24; NAMA, -1; and SBCI, 5.

Revenue Commissioners:I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that under a delegated sanction received from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform the Revenue Commissioners have started recruiting staff from Public Appointments Service panels and from existing Revenue open recruitment panels. Using its recruitment licence from the Commission for Public Service Appointments, Revenue is also recruiting specialist staff at Principal, Assistant Principal, Administrative Officer and Executive Officer levels.

Revenue recently held open competitions at Assistant Principal Level for a panel of tax professionals and Information and Communications Technology specialists. Recruitment competitions for two Principal Officers (Chief Analytics Officer and District Manager Sligo), Administrative Officers (Compliance and ICT) and Executive Officers (Compliance) are in train for 2015. The number of posts to be filled will depend on critical vacancies arising, projected business needs and the number of posts that can be filled through redeployment and from internal promotion panels. Overall Revenue expects to fill around 400 posts from open competitions advertised in 2014 and 2015. All Revenue's open competitions will be advertised nationally and on the PAS website.

In addition two Revenue vacancies at Assistant Secretary level will be filled through the TLAC process.

In total there have been 109 positions filled through recruitment up to end of April 2015.

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