Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

908. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development 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. [11864/18]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

My Department was established on 19 July 2017. I can confirm that the only appointments made outside of the Public Appointments Service recruitment system, which would not have been the appropriate recruitment channel, relate to my two Advisers, the Press Adviser and the Special Adviser.