Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the civil service mobility scheme has resumed; if not, when it is planned to resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27244/21]

Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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217. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is planned to facilitate additional transfers via the civil service mobility scheme as a result of the scheme being paused due the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27245/21]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 216 and 217 together.

As the Deputy will be aware, movement through Civil Service Mobility for the grades of Clerical Officer and Executive Officer was temporarily placed on hold in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During this phase staff were still able to register their interest in Mobility however offers of Mobility under the scheme were placed on hold.

The list-based scheme re-opened on the 19^thOctober 2020 for the grades of Clerical Officer and Executive Officer. From that date it allowed Civil Service organisations to resume making offers of Mobility through the Scheme. A number of further phases of the Mobility scheme were launched following the re-opening of the scheme.

- Phase 2C - Advertisement-Based Mobility for Assistant Principals went live on 2nd November 2020. The terms of the scheme directly mirror that of the Principal Officer Mobility scheme which went live in September 2015.

- Phase 2A - The application Stage of the list-based Mobility Scheme for Higher Executive Officer and Administrative Officer generalist grades went live on 18th January 2021. The offer stage of this phase is due to go-live in the coming month.

Plans are on target to launch Phase 2B in the coming months. This is an Advertisement-based Mobility scheme for positions which require qualifications or more specialist expertise for the grades of Higher Executive Officer and Administrative Officer.

The number of vacancies that can be filled through mobility depends on the workforce requirements of each organisation, however not all vacancies are required to be filled through Mobility. Organisations are required to fill vacant posts by adhering to an organisational grade-based nationwide sequencing which was agreed to by the Staff Unions.