Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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138. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of recruitment campaigns being undertaken or planned for 2017 by the Revenue Commissioners; the positions to be filled; the location of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22702/17]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by Revenue that they are currently advertising a number of posts.  The campaigns which are currently underway are for Principal Officer in Revenue’s Large Cases Division (Dublin), Librarian (Dublin), Executive Officers (Tax, Audit and Compliance) (Nationwide) and Printers for Revenue’s Print Centre in Dublin. Campaigns for Solicitor (Dublin, Cork and Limerick), Administrative Officer (Compliance and Information Technology) (Dublin and Limerick) and Assistant Principal (Audit and Compliance) (Nationwide) were held earlier this year.

In addition to Revenue open recruitment panels, Revenue also recruits staff from panels established by the Public Appointments Service (PAS). This recruitment is primarily at Clerical Officer level. Assignments have also been made from PAS panels at Executive Officer, Higher Executive Officer and Assistant Principal level in 2017.  

Revenue appointed over 540 staff in 2016 and over 250 so far this year from open recruitment and inter-departmental competitions. The recruitment has been at all levels and across a range of functions including audit & compliance, debt management, international tax, tax and legal professionals, data analysts, economists and information technology experts.

In the preparation for the Estimates of 2015, 2016 and 2017, Revenue made business cases for additional resources, which I fully supported. Over the Budgets of 2015, 2016 and 2017, an increase of 266 (126, 50 and 90) in additional Revenue resources was provided to deal with a wide variety of staffing requirements across audit and compliance functions, debt management functions, international tax, etc. This Government will continue to carefully consider any request by Revenue for additional resources.