John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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Mr. Watt referred to positions with regard to the secondments of senior civil servants so he was talking about Secretaries General. There are two Secretaries General who have been seconded. That is by Government agreement on a decision from 2011 and 2021 which says quite clearly that if they have not achieved the 40 years pensionable service or whatever, they will at the end of their term in office as Secretary General be offered an alternative position in the Civil Service or public service at a salary equivalent to a Secretary General or in an international institution with the intention that they will be offered a position until their preserved pension age, and that retirement before that age would not be the norm. Is that a fair interpretation of what was described as an open-ended secondment, in other words, that this would bring Dr. Holohan up to his natural retirement age?