Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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 [11856/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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Under the terms of the Guidelines for Ministerial Appointments published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform my Department presently employs five special advisers and six civilian drivers which are non established Civil Servants. The five special advisers and six civilian drivers are assigned to the Minister, and to the two Ministers of State in the Department. The special advisers were appointed by Government and the civilian drivers' appointments were made after my Department secured an exclusion order from the Commission for Public Service Appointments (C.P.S.A.).

At administrative level two principal officers were recruited for the Public Service Reform Office under the terms of the Department's recruitment licence issued to it by the C.P.S.A.