David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Can Mr. Watt come back to the committee with the details in regard to those 14 people? We do not need names, just the details of their roles and for how many of them, at the point they departed, it was clear it was a permanent departure or that it would be what is now termed an "open-ended secondment"? The Secretary to the Government, when before the finance committee, had no knowledge of "open-ended secondments". That was news to him. Where did that policy come from? Of the 14 secondments currently in play, how many are open-ended? If Mr. Watt does not know that today, although I believe he should know it and maybe he does, will he come back to the committee as quickly as he can with that information?