Question
116. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the basis upon which, on whose authority and the process by which a person (details supplied) was assigned to work full time for the newly established Adoption Board in 1953; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27005/16]
Answer
Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Frances Fitzgerald): The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the named individual is not readily available. Nonetheless, my officials will seek to retrieve this information and to provide it to you in due course. I can confirm that she was appointed as a female Probation Officer in the Dublin Metropolitan Area following one of the first Civil Service Commission competitions for the appointment of Probation Officers.