Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the number of secondments from her Department to external private firms in 2010 to 2014, inclusive, and to date in 2015; the firms involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1849/15]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the number of secondments based in her Department from external private firms in 2010 to 2014, inclusive, and to date in 2015; the firms involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1863/15]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has a policy regarding secondments from and within her Department to external firms; when the policy was initiated and last updated; and to outline the details of the policy. [1877/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 118 to 120, inclusive, together.

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform circular 3/2013 governs the staff exchange scheme between the civil service and the private sector.

I can confirm that there have been no secondments into the Department from any external private firm or any secondment from the Department to an external private firm in the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015.