Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs
Gerard Craughwell (Independent)
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With regard to the Secretary General's comprehensive report, he made the point in today's statement that stafff working in Iveagh House on 17 June 2020, many of whom had come to the office prepared to work through that night, were conducting essential business. By the way, it was unfair to ask the Secretary General to investigate his own staff and compile a report, having just taken over the Department. One of the staff had a child with them. Is it normal for staff to bring a child with them for essential work?