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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will issue on time for travel date 20 June 2022; if the photos submitted are acceptable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31188/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application for a child (details supplied) in County Meath will issue on time for travel; if the documents supplied are correct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31189/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passport applications for four children (details supplied) will be processed on time for travel on 18 July 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31239/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passport applications for four children (details supplied) will be processed on time for travel on 18 July 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31240/22]

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)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Uasal Moloney chuig an gcoiste. A lot has been asked so I am not going to go over old ground in relation to this but I have one or two questions that I would like to ask on the secondment policy within the public service. We have looked at and discussed the recent circular stating that secondments are not supposed to be for more than five years. If he has not...

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)

Pearse Doherty: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform deals not just with the Civil Service but with the public sector as well. Does the Department have any insight into what is happening in terms of secondments within the public sector? Obviously, the title of the Department includes reform so is there any way for the committee to find out whether there is 5,000, 10,000 or 50,000 secondments or...

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)

Pearse Doherty: It would be extremely helpful to get a sense of where we are at this point in time. As parliamentarians, we can table questions to every Department and agency and ask them how many secondments they have but I expect it would be better if that was collated by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and presented to the committee rather than us doing it individually, which we can do...

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)

Pearse Doherty: Some of those elected to the Dáil or the Seanad can avail of a type of secondment. If one worked in the public sector prior to be elected to one of these Houses, is it not the case that position remains open to that person? Is Mr. Moloney familiar with 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)

Pearse Doherty: Is it Mr. Moloney's view those special arrangements should be of an indefinite nature as they are at present? Mr. Moloney can correct me if I am wrong but my understanding is a teacher - not to pick on teachers as my three sisters and my wife are teachers - could be elected as a Member of the Oireachtas and 25 years later, having lost the job, that person could return to teaching as the...

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)

Pearse Doherty: My understanding is it is the job the person left that is available to the person because the position that is backfilled is a temporary position. The person who backfills it is not given permanency and that is a problem. There is an issue in terms of workers’ rights.

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)

Pearse Doherty: To move away from the Houses of the Oireachtas and turn to the public service and Civil Service, I am familiar with cases where, for example, a professional working in a publicly-funded hospital but not one that comes under the remit of the HSE has been seconded to the Department or the HSE and that person's hospital position would have been backfilled but it would only be on a temporary...

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)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the fact that in the Civil Service that is not the case but I would encourage Mr. Moloney to take it to the next step. Let us have a bird’s eye view of where we are at with secondments, which is an important role in the transferring of experience and so on. I would like to know if there are people who have been seconded for ten years and if so, perhaps those should be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: No, it has not. Fianna Fáil is changing the law to facilitate it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: They are changing the law to make it legal. They raised half a million last year illegally.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Maybe he could also explain why the permit, the lottery licence, which is supposed to be available in the court, is not available in the court.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: All legal.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Last year, Fianna Fáil was raising money illegally, half a million.