Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 November 2016
360. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff from his Department currently seconded to a firm in the private sector per annum from 2010 to date in 2016, in tabular form; the details of the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36998/16]
View answer361. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff from his Department currently seconded from a firm in the private sector per annum from 2010 to date in 2016, in tabular form; the details of the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37014/16]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 360 and 361 together.
My Department actively facilities staff who wish to undertake secondments in other relevant organisations, including in other Government Departments and the Oireachtas, as well as the UN and EU institutions. In recent years, we have also operated an exchange scheme with the IDA. In keeping with this policy, and in line with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform’s Staff Exchange Scheme between the Civil Service and the private sector, my Department last year agreed to a temporary exchange of personnel with a private sector organisation, Avolon Holdings, a leading global aviation firm. An experienced officer from my Department and an official from Avolon Holdings were selected to participate in this staff exchange scheme for a six-month period in 2015.
