AQW 43578/11-15

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 11/03/2015
Answered On Date: 30/03/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Finance and Personnel, pursuant to AQW 39173/11-15 and AQW 42846/11-15, to clarify his response to an oral supplementary question on 9 March 2015 regarding the restricted Voluntary Exit Scheme to generate vacancies for those who lost their jobs in the Driver and Vehicle Agency, Coleraine.

Answer:

This particular Voluntary Exit Scheme was not intended to result in jobs being relocated to Coleraine but rather to create suitable vacancies within reasonable daily travelling distance into which DVA surpluses could be redeployed.

DOE have advised that in total, 72 surplus DVA staff will be redeployed into vacancies within DOE or other departments and as a result will cease to be surplus. Many staff have already moved to their new posts which are located in or around Coleraine, Limavady, Ballymoney, Londonderry, Magherafelt and Ballymena.

All remaining DVA AA and AO surpluses in Coleraine have been allocated by DOE, to long term temporary posts (for up to 2 years) in DVA Coleraine, pending identification of suitable permanent posts. The Scheme has now closed.