Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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386. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the requests received by his Department from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners regarding recruiting additional personnel to fill vacant posts in 2016 and to date in 2017; the date on which the request was received; the title of the position; if the vacancy in question related to a new or existing post; if the request was accepted or refused; the status of accepted requests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27849/17]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Action 18 of the Civil Service Renewal Plan 2014 committed to giving greater authority and flexibility to managers to enhance public services while reducing costs and increasing efficiencies within centrally determined expenditure limits and pay rates. This has involved the setting down of binding multi-annual pay allocations centrally which have replaced the Employment Control Framework for Departments as the basis for resource management. It has also involved delegating the scope to determine staffing levels and grade mix to Heads of Departments on a phased basis with the exception of Top Level Appointments Committee (TLAC) posts.

As a direct result of these delegated staffing arrangements, there have only been two requests to my Department for sanction to fill positions from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners since 1 January 2016, as detailed in the following table:

Further to these requests, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners has supplied the attached table of appointments made since 1 January 2016, which fall under the delegated staffing arrangements which are in place between my Department and that Office. 

Revenue Appointments from Open Recruitment*

Revenue Internal Promotions