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Thursday, 5 November 2015

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Departmental Staff Relocation

Photo of Fergus O'DowdFergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants awaiting transfer in his Department to locations other than their present location; the number of applications, by location; the rules that apply for such transfers; if an applicant has a defined position on the list for transfer; the grounds that apply to applicants being moved up or down on the list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38758/15]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Civil Servants who are interested in transfers to regional offices can seek such transfers through the Departmental Transfer Lists or the Central Applications Facility which was maintained in the context of the decentralisation programme. In addition Civil Servants can also seek transfers through their Staff Association for head to head swaps. More recently staff have also had the opportunity to apply for many redeployment vacancies in the Public Service as previously advertised by the Public Appointments Service.

This Department does not have a record of all such applications. Details of staff who have applied for such transfers to specific regional locations would be available from the Departments that have offices in those locations and as a result maintain transfer lists for the locations concerned. As my Department does not have any offices outside its headquarters in Dublin, it does not maintain a Transfer List for any location.

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