Meet Our Team | Public Jobs Management Team

Shirley Comerford

Chief Executive Officer

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Responsibility for implementation of Board policy, strategy, management and operation of the Public Appointments Service resides with the Corporate Executive, affected through the Chief Executive.

Chief Executive Officer, Shirley Comerford

John Keegan

Principal Officer

Corporate Services and Governance

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Head of Corporate Services and Governance

John Keegan Corporate Services and Governance

Margaret McCabe

Principal Officer

Recruitment and Selection

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Providing excellent recruitment shared service solutions (including running all recruitment campaigns in an effective and efficient manner) while providing the best quality candidate to clients for appointment and increasing client engagement and collaboration and providing superior customer service to our clients.

Michelle Noone

Principal Officer

Executive Search, Marketing and State Boards

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Using executive search methodologies to identify high quality candidates for Senior Executive and Board level appointments. Responsible for the provision of an open, efficient and effective gateway and process to identify top quality people for consideration by Ministers for appointment to State Boards

Niall Leavy

Principal Psychologist

Strategic Projects

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Responsible for supporting the Management Board on a number of key strategic research and development projects that assist the organisation. The role also identifies and prepares for adopting market leading approaches to recruitment and assessment and helps to ensure continuous delivery of excellent service to clients across the public sector.

Áine Gray

Senior Psychologist

Assessment Services

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Putting effective, efficient and best practice assessment measures in place to select the best possible candidates for our clients.

Lisa Keyes

Principal Officer

Recruitment Operations

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Lisa is responsible for the recruitment operations within the PAS. This includes our client relations function, clearance and assignment teams, front of house operations and internal business support.

Mary Flynn

Assistant Principal Officer

Justice Group Recruitment

Meet our Board

The Current Board of PAS is as follows:

Mr. Tom Moran,
Chairperson
Dr. Eddie Molloy,
HR Consultant
Ms. Anne Marie Taylor,
HR Consultant
Ms. Mary Connaughton
CIPD Ireland Director
Mr. Paul Lemass,
Assistant Secretary - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government
Mr. John O’Callaghan,
Assistant Secretary - Department of Justice and Equality
Mr. David Cagney,
Chief Human Resources Officer for the Civil Service, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Ms. Rosarii Mannion,
National Director Human Resources, Health Service Executive
Shirley Comerford CEO,
PAS