Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff members from his Department that have been temporarily and or permanently redeployed to other Government Departments or agencies since 27 March 2009; the details of the grades and pay scales of same; the total amount of savings achieved in salary payments in respect of the persons concerned; the duration of assignments; the business reasons supporting the redeployment of staff; the details of sanction received from the Department of Finance and or Public Expenditure and Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47178/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Two staff members have been redeployed from my Department since 27th March 2009 to date. Sanction relating to these redeployments would be a matter for the receiving Departments. Under the Reform Programme, the Department ceased the operation of it's Regional Office Service in the Spring of 2010. At the time staff serving in those offices were reassigned alternative work in the Department in their current location. Following retirements and normal transfers out, the North and South County Dublin Offices and the Galway Office have been wound down and the two remaining officers redeployed in location. The attached table sets out the details of each:

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff members that have been temporarily and or permanently redeployed to his Department from other Government Departments or agencies since 27 March 2009; the details of the grades and pay scales involved; the total increase in salary payments for his Department in respect of the persons concerned; the duration of assignments; the area to which each person was assigned; the business reasons supporting the redeployment of staff; the details of sanction received from the Department of Finance and or Public Expenditure and Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47193/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Eight staff members have been redeployed to my Department since 27th March 2009, three of them on a temporary basis. Under the current redeployment arrangements, these staff retain the terms and conditions of employment as held by them in their original organisation until such time as legislation is brought forward by my colleague the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to underpin such arrangements. All these redeployments were sanctioned by the Department of Finance and/ or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. While there is an increase in salary costs to this Department due to some of the cases below, there is no increase in salary costs to the State.
The attached table sets out the relevant details