Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected timeframe for a panel transfer to counties Cavan and Monaghan for a person (details supplied); the steps taken to ensure the appropriate recruitment sequencing has been followed at phase 1 level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4915/22]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Civil Service Mobility offers an opportunity for staff members to apply for Mobility (i.e. transfer) through an open and transparent system.

It is one of a number of arrangements put in place to fulfil the requirements of Action 15 of the Civil Service Renewal Plan which calls to “expand career and Mobility opportunities for staff across geographic, organisational and sectoral boundaries” and Action 14 of the People Strategy for the Civil Service which calls for the further expansion of a coherent Mobility policy to facilitate staff development.

The country is divided into 46 zones/locations for the purpose of the mobility scheme. Counties Cavan and Monaghan are encompassed by Zone 9 and 10.

Mobility moves for Executive Officers are made in accordance with the following organisational sequencing which is applied nationwide rather than per zone/location:

50% Open: 25% Interdepartmental* : 25% Internal.

*one in every two Interdepartmental vacancies to be filled by Mobility.

The timing of vacancies, and the filling of same under the nationwide sequencing is subject to the business needs of each individual organisation.

The applicant has access to the Mobility system and can view their waitlist positions for each of their chosen Mobility applications. An applicant does not need to be at the top of a waitlist in order to be made an offer. In some instances applicants with waitlist positions as high as 35 are being made offers. This occurs where applicants on the list ahead of them are either ineligible, or have their applications placed ‘on-hold’. It can also occur where an organisation are taking multiple applicants off the list at the same time.

For further information on the scheme please visit the Mobility website at: .