Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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779. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department who entered the Civil Service via a route other than through an open competition run by the Public Appointments Service or its predecessors; the grades of each; and the basis for the non-standard recruitment [11853/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the table:

*There were a number of staff who went through a specialised establishment process with the Public Appointments Service(PAS) following a European Court ruling as a result of a number of contracts of indefinite duration. All of these passed the required qualifications and vetting procedures for positions filled by PAS. While these positions were not through an open competition they were sanctioned and appointed by PAS.