Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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What impact would that have on hiring someone else to replace them, if they were technically gone for the whole time? Say, for example, I was in the role just below somebody who was seconded and everyone knew they would be gone the entire time. What impact would that have on me? Would I be taking on the duties and responsibilities but not the actual role?