Mr. David Moloney:

The Deputy is quite right. The Department has an interest in public service reform, end to end, right across the public service. Our responsibilities as an employer are related to the Civil Service so when we talk about having information on the Civil Service it is because we are the employer of the civil servants. Whereas in the wider public sector, you are probably the employer of the board of your particular part of the public sector. The HSE board is probably the employer for a lot of the HSE. The Department does not have the HR data outside of the Civil Service. In terms of whether it could be collected, it is certainly an issue we could discuss, for example, at the public service leadership board. Again, there is a very wide variety of public service organisations across 360,000 people so it is quite a data exercise. We could look to see what insights might be gleaned and it might, in fact, be a natural next step to the review of the secondment policy that we are due to do after six months - in effect, starting next month in any case.