Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 April 2022
521. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the intention of the staff member to return to their position within the Department. [20641/22]
View answerI wish to advise the Deputy that all secondments of staff out from the Department of Finance since January 2019 were agreed by the Department on a temporary basis where the staff would return to this Department upon the end of the stated duration of the secondment.
The Department’s secondments follow the guidelines set out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's Secondment Policy for the Civil Service. This was outlined most recently in Circular 27-2021 which sets out the current arrangements for secondments between Civil Service organisations. This Secondment Policy also provides that the same principles may be applied to secondment arrangements between a parent department and a non-civil service body within its sector.
