crown wrote:Monifé wrote:Abdul-w-A wrote:Hi,
Not at all! you can be a non EEA national to join public service generally if you are resident 5 years in the state (all legally recognised categories ie migrant worker, stamp 4 etc) or a refugee with no residency period requirment at all. A very few positions funded exclusively by EU are exclusicve to EEA nationals and some even fewer positions at the department of foreign affairs for example are restricted to Irish Citizens and even EEA nationals can not apply to. but for the overwhelming majority of public positions it is a 5 years residence requirement.
Regards
I think you might be wrong there , maybe semi-state bodies and the guards take on non-EU citizens but general civil service jobs for example in social welfare or department of justice or central statistics office, you have to be an EU citizen (or naturalised Irish).
(I work in the Central Statistics Office)
Good luck to everyone waiting
Please this is untrue you only need to have a work permit to work in the civil or public service or any government office. Restrictions only applied in the army and gardai and other security agencies. With the general shortage of applicants and the need to represent the ethnic minorities these have also been relaxed. Hence there are Chinese, Nigerians etc in the gardai and the army now
CROWN, You may be wrong and if you are right it may be before the recession where do you have the shortages of applicants? Now most government departments even multinationals preferred giving jobs to Irish/Europeans than Non Europeans. Another thing was that it may be written in the rules as a formality to claim equality but in practice it is not being followed.
The Non Europeans are in no favourable position of securing a job at this material time. An example is the Enumerator positions with the Census which will start on the 4th January, Non European are not entitled to apply. I have witnessed many situation since the recession whereby, most employers prefers to employ Irish/European citizens, so the best scenario is for the Government to relax their requirements in respect of the Naturalisation so that those Non Europeans who have been in the country almost 10 years and are legal and have worked in this country for over 5 years, then lost their jobs and have naturalisation applications in should be favoured, unless they has committed any offence, because at the moment securing a job as non european is like trying to walk through a needle hole, so they can have same rights with the Irish and European in securing jobs, if not most Non Europeans who are unemployed at the moment will continute to be a burden on social welfare for a long time until there are enough jobs to go round, since their chances of getting job is very slim and their residency do not cover them in looking for opportunities in other countries like the Irish or European Union members.
