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Civil Service Strategic Resourcing Unit

Published on Jan. 23, 2025

Last update on Jan. 21, 2026

Table of contents

Recruitment

FAQs – Recruitment in the Irish Civil Service

FAQs - Recruitment in the Irish Civil Service

Template Competition Booklet for Open Competitions

Template Competition Booklet for Open Competitions

Principal Conditions of Service

Health and Character and Certain Restrictions to Eligibility 2025

Sequencing

Understanding Sequencing

Current Sequence of Promotion Table

General Council Report 1539 Professional and Technical Sequences

Fixed-Term Employees in the Irish Civil Service

Template fixed-term contracts

Guidelines on Best Practice for the Recruitment and Management of Fixed-Term Employees in the Irish Civil Service

One Year Probationary Contract

Promotion

Cross stream promotion

Letter to Personal Officers

Arrangements applying to starting pay

DPER Circular 08/2019

Ministerial Personal Appointments

FAQs - Ministerial Personal Appointments

FAQs - Ministerial Personal Appointments

Guidance Note – Special Advisers

Instructions to HR Managers - Guidelines on the appointment of Ministerial Personal Staff for the 34th Dáil

Appendix 1 - Guidelines on Staffing of Ministers Offices

Template Contracts

Template Contract (34th Dáil) - Civilian Driver

Template Contract (34th Dáil) - Special Adviser

Link to SIPO guidelines

SIPO guidelines

Excluding Orders

DPER Circular (10/2025)

Internships and Transition Year

Internships

Civil Service Internship Framework

FAQs - Internship Programmes

Excluding orders

Transition Year

Transition Year guidelines

Irish language

20-year Strategy: Irish 2010-30

National Plan for Irish Language Public Services

Action Plan for Irish Language Public Services 2026-2028

Other relevant Links

Other useful links

PublicJobs/State Boards

CPSA

PublicJobs.ie

Top-Level Appointments Committee (TLAC)