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

Mr. Joe Hackett:

I think that it was part of the working day. The outcome of the vote was work. There was a whole range of quite intense work-related activity that would have had to happen in the immediate aftermath of that vote. Therefore it was not an event. It was a work-related activity. The Secretary General made a decision that when that piece of work was taking place - that is, staff watching the results come through - he would be with them.