Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the opportunities available to public sector employees to transfer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47734/22]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, there are a number of mechanisms in place that support lateral movements of staff members across the Civil Service.These include:

- Civil Service Mobility Scheme

- Secondments

- Redeployment.

Civil Service Mobility Scheme

The Mobility scheme is the primary mechanism for the permanent lateral movement of staff members across Civil Service organisations through an open and transparent system. 

Mobility opportunities are now available for all general service staff members (Clerical Officer up to Assistant Secretary) to move to a different Civil Service organisation and/or geographical location, providing an opportunity to broaden their skills and career development while also supporting the business needs of Civil Service organisations.

Secondments

The Secondment policy is used to complement the Mobility scheme to fill time-bound positions concurrent with a strategic project/placement.

The policy facilitates the temporary release and movement of staff members for a specified period of time in a way which does not affect their employment status, providing opportunities to broaden their skills and continue their professional and personal development while retaining the right to return to their substantive or equivalent position in the sending organisation at the end of the secondment. It also provides an opportunity for the receiving organisation to fill a temporary position with both the receiving and sending organisation benefiting from shared learning, good practice, new ideas and experience.

Redeployment

The Public Service Agreements (PSAs) (the Croke Park and Haddington Road Agreements) provide for agreed redeployment arrangements to apply for staff members to be moved as a result of the rationalisation, reconfiguration or restructuring of organisations or where activities have assumed lesser priority arising from changing business needs in the Civil Service and in other parts of the Public Service. 

Redeployment generally takes precedence over all other methods of filling a vacancy.

Full details of the terms of the above lateral movement mechanisms can be found at the following link: Mobility - hr.per.gov.ie