Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 22 November 2017
137. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the staff that have been seconded from her Department to the National Museum of Ireland since 2007; the position of each; and the dates of their seconded positions. [49481/17]
View answerI am advised that no staff have been seconded from my Department to the National Museum of Ireland since the establishment of my Department in June 2011.
My understanding is that following the establishment of the National Museum of Ireland on 3 May 2005 staff who were not engaged for the performance of duties exclusively in the Museum were seconded for an agreed 25 month period, at the end of which they had the option to transfer definitively to the Museum or to return to the Department or the wider Civil Service. My Department has no record of any further secondments since such staff were formally transferred.
