Mr. David Moloney:

The policy states in the case of secondments between the Civil Service and public service and secondments within public service bodies the human resources, HR, pay and other arrangements are for discussion between the two parties. There would be a discussion about that. Regarding the two Secretaries General secondments we spoke about earlier, both of those are being paid for by the university.

They are on the payroll of the universities. Obviously, they are funded through the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Vote.