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- 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)
John McGuinness: I remind members of the note on privilege. Those on the Leinster House campus are covered by full privilege and those who are not have limited privilege. I remind them of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable. The minutes of out last meeting held...
- 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)
John McGuinness: Does Deputy O'Callaghan have a question around the Members and their retirement? Where do Members go when they retire?
- 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)
John McGuinness: I think so, yes. It is unusual that there would be all these concerns expressed about Secretaries General, who are reasonably well-paid and so on, but no one is concerned about the future of the Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas who make, or are supposed to make, the policy. I thought Deputy O'Callaghan might have raised that question.
- 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)
John McGuinness: In terms of the public service versus the Civil Service, Mr. Moloney said the circular letter of 2021 relates to the Civil Service only. What is the process for ensuring there is a similar type of policy shared by the public sector?
- 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)
John McGuinness: These public service bodies are generally agencies of a Department. In terms of the circular letter that was issued, it is interesting to hear the explanation being offered that it applied only to civil servants and, therefore, the public service was left to one side. That is not good practice. If we are expecting one policy to be followed by a civil servant, any agency that comes under a...
- 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)
John McGuinness: In this case the hope has not succeeded because this has now been put forward as a distinction. The circular applied to a civil servant but it does not apply to a body that is part of the public service. What process is in place to make sure the hope Mr. Moloney has that the public service will follow the line of the Civil Service in respect of the policy, and the letter that was issued in...
- 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)
John McGuinness: Would Mr. Moloney cover such matters as the salary for the person?
- 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)
John McGuinness: When Mr. Moloney considers the person holding the post in the Civil Service or in the public service who is about to be seconded to a university, what would he look at in terms of that sanction? Is it as broad as what he has just said and that is it? Does he consider the knock-on effects of that person departing their role, will that person be paid by the Department or by the university and...
- 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)
John McGuinness: The example is obvious. The reason we are having this discussion today is because of the arrangement that was being made with Trinity College.
- 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)
John McGuinness: Is it fair to say Mr. Moloney, as the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, you knew nothing about this prior to the request for sanctioning having been made by the Department of Health?