asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he or his Minister of State has directed any of the staff employed in his departmental constituency office to travel to or work directly in the local constituency clinic; if such practice, if any, is in the public interest, and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers. - Ministerial Staff.
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No officer of my Department is employed in a local clinic either in my constituency or that of the Minister of State. A secretarial assistant is employed in the Minister of State's local constituency office in Ballina as she has been for the past five years. She is on loan from the Oireachtas to my Department.