My Department facilitates secondments of officials to other organisations, as a result of their particular skillsets, to meet specific business needs and/or to facilitate career development opportunities.
There are currently four civil servants who are on secondment from my Department to a State agency or other public body, on a fixed-term contract basis, in roles which attract a higher salary than their salary in their substantive civil service grade i.e. the grade at which the individual is employed in my Department. The difference between the two is pensionable. It should be noted that the full salary costs associated with these posts are met by the receiving organisations, though for administrative purposes, Department officials on secondment to outside organisations may continue to be paid through the Department’s payroll arrangements with the National Shared Services Office (NSSO) with salary costs recouped to the Department of Education.
There are no civil servants on secondment from my Department to a State agency or public body for more than 10 years.the Department of Foreign Affairs and posted to embassies and missions abroad.
