Senior civil servants to face performance rating under new reforms

The country’s most senior civil servants will have their performance rated for the first time, under a new reform plan.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin TD pictured outside Government Buildings at the publication of the Civil Service Renewal Plan.

The country’s most senior civil servants will have their performance rated for the first time, under a new reform plan.

There are 35,000 civil servants in the country who have responsibility overall for €53 billion of public spending each year.

Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin said that the performance of secretaries-general - the heads of government departments -would be assessed by a new civil service accountability board.

“The accountability board will be led ...