Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the Deputy's other question, established civil servants, or normal civil servants, are those appointed under the Civil Service Regulation Act. Unestablished civil servants can be appointed to statutory positions and unestablished positions, such as messenger, usher and so on. There is a range of unestablished civil servant positions. If I recall correctly, officials of this House were once called neither civil servants nor unestablished civil servants but something completely different. Perhaps the clerk of the committee can advise on this.