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Thursday, 10 December 2015

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Departmental Staff Redeployment

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of employees who are on Civil Service redeployment panels by grade; if his Department is required to accept staff from redeployment panels before promoting staff internally, assigning existing staff to higher duties on an allowance basis, or recruiting new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44514/15]

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The Public Service Agreements (the Croke Park and Haddington Road Agreements) provide for agreed redeployment arrangements to apply in the Civil Service and in other parts of the Public Service where there are surplus staff.  A Department of Public Expenditure and Reform circular (Circular 8 of 2010) setting out the arrangements across the Civil Service and between the Civil Service and Non-Commercial State Sponsored Bodies issued in July 2010 and can be found at

I have been informed by the Public Appointments Service (PAS) that as at the end of October 2015 there are 26 Officers on the Redeployment Resource Panel, 11 civil servants and 15 from the NCSSB sector. The total number redeployed from the panel to date is 995.

Redeployment will generally take precedence over recruitment (including fixed term employees), transfers and promotions except in circumstances where special skills are required or where the post cannot otherwise be filled through redeployment arising from geographical or other constraints, or to meet essential manpower planning and business needs. 

The Deputy will recall that at Budget time in October 2014 I also announced an end to the Moratorium on Recruitment and Promotion in the Public Service, to be replaced with new delegated management arrangements to be phased in during 2015 and 2016. These arrangements, which now apply to most Government departments, give managers the means to respond to service needs as they arise, including considerable flexibility to make staffing and service level delivery decisions at the front line. 

These new arrangements represent a significant shift away from the central control of the Moratorium and allow Departments greater management of its staffing resources. 

The following table sets out the grades currently on the Resource Panel: 

Civil Service Grades

Grades
Principal Officer - 1
Assistant Principal - 1
Engineer Grade II - 1 Principal Officer - 1
Higher Executive Officer -1 Assistant Principal - 1
Executive Officer - 2 Engineer Grade II - 1
Clerical Officer - 4 Higher Executive Officer -1
Cleaner - 1 Executive Officer -2
Clerical Officer - 4
NCSSB Grades Cleaner - 1
NCSSB
Snr Principal Scientific Officer - (Engineer) - 1 NCSSB Grades
Prinicipal Officer - 1 Principal Officer - 1
Grade VIII - Manager - 1 Snr Principal Scientific Officer - (Engineer) - 1 Assistant Principal - 1
Assistant Principal Officer - 2 Prinicipal Officer - 1 Engineer Grade II - 1 Principal Officer - 1
Senior Scientific Officer (Engineer) - 1 Grade VIII - Manager - 1 Higher Executive Officer -1 Assistant Principal - 1
Health & Safety Inspector (Eng Grade II) -1 Assistant Principal Officer - 2 Executive Officer -2 Engineer Grade II - 1
Shannon Development Executive 3 (E3) - 1 Senior Scientific Officer (Engineer) - 1 Clerical Officer - 4 Higher Executive Officer -1
Grade VII - Systems Analyst - 1 Health & Safety Inspector (Eng Grade II) -1 Cleaner - 1 Executive Officer -2
Level 3 A (HEO) - 1 Shannon Development Executive 3 (E3) - 1 Clerical Officer - 4
Level 3B (HEO equiv) - 1 Grade VII - Systems Analyst - 1NCSSB Grades Cleaner - 1
Higher Executive Officer - 1 Level 3 A (HEO) - 1
Executive Officer - 1 Level 3B (HEO equiv) - 1 Snr Principal Scientific Officer - (Engineer) - 1NCSSB Grades
Retail Manager - 1 Higher Executive Officer - 1 Prinicipal Officer - 1
Clerical Officer - 1 Executive Officer - 1 Grade VIII - Manager - 1 Snr Principal Scientific Officer - (Engineer) - 1
Retail Manager - 1 Assistant Principal Officer - 2 Prinicipal Officer - 1
Clerical Officer - 1 Senior Scientific Officer (Engineer) - 1 Grade VIII - Manager - 1
Health & Safety Inspector (Eng Grade II) -1 Assistant Principal Officer - 2
Shannon Development Executive 3 (E3) - 1 Senior Scientific Officer (Engineer) - 1
Grade VII - Systems Analyst - 1 Health & Safety Inspector (Eng Grade II) -1
Level 3 A (HEO) - 1 Shannon Development Executive 3 (E3) - 1
Level 3B (HEO equiv) - 1 Grade VII - Systems Analyst - 1
Higher Executive Officer - 1 Level 3 A (HEO) - 1
Executive Officer - 1 Level 3B (HEO equiv) - 1
Retail Manager - 1 Higher Executive Officer - 1
Clerical Officer - 1 Executive Officer - 1
Retail Manager - 1
Clerical Officer - 1

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