Departmental Employees Hired Without Competition
The Minister supplied a tabular statement on departmental recruitment over four years and reported 17 hires without public competition in the latter half of 1976.
andMr. MacSharry asked the Minister for Justice the number of people employed in his Department in each of the last four years; the number of people employed in each of the same years without having taken part in a public competition; and the number of people employed in the past six months without having taken part in a public competition.
Comment on this
The answer is in the form of a tabular statement which, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:
(a) Number of people employed in each of the years 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976:
(b) Number of people employed in each of the years 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, without having taken part in a public competition:
(c) Number of people employed in the sixmonth period 1st July—31st December 1976 without having taken part in a public competition: 17.