Should your place on the panel be reached and you come under consideration for a position, several pre-employment checks must be completed before a candidate is deemed suitable for appointment.
These checks are carried out to satisfy the Public Appointments Service that the candidate satisfies all necessary requirements. Prior to assigning a candidate for appointment to a position, the PAS will make all such enquiries necessary to determine the suitability and eligibility of that candidate. These checks include an evaluation of Citizenship, Health & Character, Garda Vetting & Security Clearance and Reference Checks.
Where Citizenship, Health & Character, Garda Vetting and Reference Checks are unsatisfactory or cannot be obtained, the PAS reserves the right to disqualify a candidate from any further consideration of appointment or termination of your employment where an appointment has already been made.
Candidates must, by the date of any job offer, be:
(a) A citizen of the European Economic Area (EEA). The EEA consists of the Member States of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway; or
(b) A citizen of the United Kingdom (UK); or
(c) A citizen of Switzerland pursuant to the agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the free movement of persons; or
(d) A non-EEA citizen who is a spouse or child of an EEA or UK or Swiss citizen and has a stamp 4 visa; or
(e) A person awarded international protection under the International Protection Act 2015 or any family member entitled to remain in the State as a result of family reunification and has a stamp 4 visa or
(f) A non-EEA citizen who is a parent of a dependent child who is a citizen of, and resident in, an EEA member state or the UK or Switzerland and has a stamp 4 visa
Candidates must be in good health, capable and competent of carrying out the work assigned to them, and they must be of good character. Those under consideration for a position will be required to complete a health and character declaration and a Garda eVetting form. In the event of potential conflicts of interest, candidates may not be considered for certain posts.
You will be required to complete and return a Garda eVetting form should you come under consideration for appointment. This form will be forwarded to An Garda Síochána for security checks on all Irish and Northern Irish addresses at which you resided. Special Security Clearance is a requirement for appointments to certain offices or departments.
Candidates should be aware that any information obtained in the Garda Vetting process can be made available to the employing authority.
Before being deemed suitable for appointment to a position, the PAS must be satisfied in respect of character and prior work performance, if any, of a candidate. In order to do so, the PAS will arrange to conduct reference checks.
Once a candidate has successfully completed the above pre-employment checks, they will be assigned from the panel. Please note, once an assignment is made, a candidate will not come under consideration from the panel again.
Please note that placement on a panel is not a guarantee of appointment to a position.
