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
Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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Prior to the secondment of individuals to third level institutions and as ambassadors, had that happened prior to recent times? Had retiring Secretaries General gone to academia or the diplomatic corps?
The Deputy will understand I do not have full visibility but, as I understand it, it is a common enough practice within the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Secretary General of that Department would take up an ambassadorship-----