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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Health and Safety (16 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will consider organising a public awareness campaign around the dangers of using rodenticides; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31515/22]

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Luann an rún seo an costas atá ar bhreosla. Tuigim go bhfuil an rún níos leithne ná sin ach mar atá ráite ag mo chuid comhghleacaithe, caithfimid a thuiscint gurb é an bealach is fearr le déileáil leis an gcostas seo agus leis an ardú sa chostas seo go fadtéarmach ná infheistíocht cuí a dhéanamh i bhfoinsí...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Priorities (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the work that her Department has undertaken to address and minimise violence against members of the LGBT+ community and trans persons in particular; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31197/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Equality Issues (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 246. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the measures that her Department has taken to ensure that existing community infrastructure is inclusive and welcoming to LGBTI+ persons; if she will provide a list of pop-up LGBTI+ services that have been created in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31196/22]

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 (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh míle maith agat as ucht teacht ós comhair an choiste chun an ábhar seo a phlé. I thank Mr. Moloney for coming in front of the committee to discuss this topic. To start off on secondments, the crux of the issue that people have been querying over the last number of weeks and months is in relation to a temporary nature of a secondment. If we look at the HR...

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 (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: In theory secondments are supposed to be temporary but in practice sometimes they are not. Is it a technical matter? Is that what Mr. Moloney is saying? Sometimes secondments are forever. Does Mr. Moloney think there is a concern in relation to that? Does he think there needs to be further clarity to make it very clear how secondments work if they are to an external body, as mentioned,...

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 (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: What would other examples be of secondments being used on a permanent basis?

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 (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Why exactly is secondment used for that?

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 (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 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?

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 (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Could that cause an issue if the person came back?

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 (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Of the current secondments, how many are at Secretary General and assistant secretary general grade? Does Mr. Moloney have a figure of the number of people who have gone on secondment because that is the kind of thing we have been talking about? He mentioned some in his opening statement.

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 (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: That is fair. Some of the questions have already been answered but in relation to the secondments Mr. Moloney mentioned to Maynooth University and the National University of Ireland, Galway, these are secondments that have been raised with us and people have asked serious enough questions. It is easier to be frank and honest with Mr. Moloney and to ask these questions. Concerns have been...

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 (15 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: That is interesting and that probably covers most of my questions. Mr. Moloney is saying he is fully confident that they have a great job of work there and about the research they are carrying out. In fairness Mr. Moloney has given more detail on that there but sometimes we need to be honest about these things because we have unfortunately had a history in this State of a huge lack of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (14 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 424. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated annual first year and full-year cost of regrading Seanad secretarial assistants to parliamentary assistant grades, for regrading Dáil secretarial assistants as administrative assistants and having Dáil parliamentary assistants pay brought in line with the Building Momentum Public Service Stability Agreement in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (14 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 425. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated annual savings to the Exchequer from reducing the additional non-Oireachtas salaries (details supplied) of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste, Ministers and Ministers of State by 50% in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29692/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 507. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will increase the income threshold for social housing support given the increasing cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29601/22]