Govt ‘promoting junior staff to fill decentralisation deficit’
04/10/2005 - 13:53:06IMPACT has accused the Government of planning to promote junior staff to cover up problems with the decentralisation programme.
The trade union claimed today that the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats coalition was planning to fill decentralised posts by promoting junior staff at an unknown cost to the taxpayer.
It said the move was being implemented because senior and specialist staff did not want to move out of Dublin to new locations around the country.
IMPACT said it now appeared that the most important qualification for a job in the civil service was not performance or skill, but a willingness to move out of the capital.
