Press release
Minister McGrath announces winners of Civil Service Excellence and Innovation Awards 2021
From Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
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From Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
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Last updated on
The Civil Service Excellence and Innovation Awards are held each year to publicly recognise excellence and innovation across the Civil Service and showcase best practice in Civil Service organisations. The 2021 awards were presented at a ceremony in St. Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle last night.
The event had a reduced guest list and observed COVID-19 precautions to ensure everyone could safely and responsibly enjoy the event.
There were 12 winners on the night and the awards were presented by the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin; the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Michael McGrath, and the Secretary General of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and Civil Service Management Board representative Dr. Orlaith Quinn.
Minister McGrath said:
“The Civil Service Excellence and Innovation Awards have always been a great way to recognize and show our appreciation for the hard work and commitment that I see every day in the civil service. The 2021 awards highlight, in particular, the strength, resilience and commitment of our civil servants as they continued to deliver for the people of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Commenting on the awards, the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform David Moloney said:
“These awards celebrate the excellent service the civil service strives to achieve even in the most challenging of times that we have all experienced recently. I want to congratulate, not only the winners tonight, but all of the nominated projects and teams involved who have shown that the civil service can be an agile, professional and innovative organisation."
The Awards were established under the Civil Service Renewal Plan 2014 and are a continued action under the Civil Service Renewal 2030 Strategy and its first three year action plan the Civil Service Renewal 2024 Action Plan.
More information on the Renewal Programme is available at: https://www.gov.ie/en/policy-information/fd9c03-civil-service-renewal/
This year 90 nominations were received from across the Civil Service and 33 projects were shortlisted. There were 12 award winning projects. The winning projects are:
Category 1: Employee Engagement (including Staff Health & Wellbeing)
Winner: LGBT+ Staff Engagement and Awareness Project, Department of Social Protection
Category 2: Excellence in Innovation
Winner: Brexit Infrastructure, Office of Public Works
Category 3: Excellence in People, Skills and Organisational Development
Winner: Embedding Programme and Project Management, Department of Defence
Category 4: Excellence in Policy Making and Implementation
Winner: Greening and Empowering our Electricity Future, Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications
Category 5: Excellence through Collaboration
Winner: Ireland’s Security Council Campaign, Department of Foreign Affairs
Category 6: Integrated Digital Excellence
Winner: The Design and Delivery of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment, Department of Social Protection
Category 7: Leading Reform during COVID-19
Winner: Beyond Walls – Supporting Prisoners, Families and Service Providers during Covid-19, Irish Prison Service
Category 8: Research, Analytics and Insight
Winner: Conservation of Fish Species for a Sustainable Fishing Future, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Category 9: Citizen Impact and Customer Service
Winners:
Category 10: World Class Civil Service
Winner: COVID-19 Vaccination Programme, Department of Health in collaboration with the Health Service Executive and the High Level Taskforce