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Tuesday, 16 October 2018

Department of Finance

Departmental Staff Data

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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136. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff in his Department and in bodies under his aegis appointed to the principal officer grade arising from internal competitions since 7 July 2015, by year. [41865/18]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that since 7 July 2015 six staff members have been promoted to Principal from internal competitions as follows:

YearMaleFemale
201500
201630
201701
2018 to date11

In addition three staff were promoted to Principal from open competitions and assigned to my Department and a further eleven staff transferred out to other Departments on promotion to Principal.

All appointments comply with the "Recruitment and Selection Policy - Guidelines in the Department of Finance” and are conducted in accordance with the code of practice published by the Commission for Public Service Appointments to ensure:

- Probity (a morally just, honest process is carried out with integrity)

- Appointments are made on merit

- An appointments process is in line with best practice

- A fair appointments process is applied with consistency

- Appointments are made in an open, accountable and transparent manner.

Of the 17 bodies under the aegis of my Department, 15 have not appointed staff to the Principal Officer grade from internal competitions since 7 July 2015. It should be noted that most of these bodies do not employ staff in civil service grades.

The two remaining bodies are the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Office of the Revenue Commissioners. Since 7 July 2015, the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General has appointed three staff to the level of Deputy Director of Audit (Principal Officer level) from internal competitions. These three appointments were made in 2015.

Ten appointments to the grade of Principal Officer have been made in the Office of the Revenue Commissioners from internal competitions since 7 July 2015. Three were appointed in 2015, two each in 2016 and 2017 and three have been appointed to date in 2018.

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