I 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.