Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department that 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. [11859/18]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Officers join the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through standard recruitment practices i.e. through competitions run under license directly by this Department or the Public Appointments Service, or through transfer/redeployment from another government Department under standard transfer/redeployment arrangements.

Under the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004, the Commission for Public Service Appointments has granted recruitment licenses to certain public service bodies, including this Department. Licence holders are obliged to ensure that their recruitment is carried out in accordance with the Commission’s Codes of Practice. These prescribe the necessary standards of probity, merit, equity and fairness to be applied by all those carrying out recruitment under license.

All officers above the grade of clerical officer in this Department joined the Department through the processes described above.