Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform deals not just with the Civil Service but with the public sector as well. Does the Department have any insight into what is happening in terms of secondments within the public sector? Obviously, the title of the Department includes reform so is there any way for the committee to find out whether there is 5,000, 10,000 or 50,000 secondments or whether 8,000 of them have been for a duration of nine years? Are there people who have been seconded and have been forgotten all about? The committee would like to know some of this data. Is it possible to have it collated?