asked the Minister for Finance whether his attention has been drawn to an advertisement in the situations vacant column in a Dublin newspaper inviting applications by postcard for a post as typist in the Civil Service Commission; and whether this is a departure from the normal methods of recruitment; and, if so, why.

There has been no departure from the normal method of recruitment to this grade. The main advertisement relating to vacancies for clerk/typists for shorthand-typing and for typing duties in the Civil Service appeared in the Government Notices columns of the morning papers on 30th May. A number of short reminder advertisements were issued subsequently, in case anybody interested had missed the main advertisement, and, in accordance with the custom of some of the newspapers, one of these was published also in an evening paper. There was a printer's error in it and this may have misled the Deputy. The advertisement related to the general recruitment of typists for the Civil Service, not to a typist vacancy in the Civil Service Commission, and invited interested persons to apply on a postcard for details.