Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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419. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff from her Department currently seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service per annum from 2010 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36959/16]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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420. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff from her Department who have appealed against secondment per annum from 2010 to date in 2016, in tabular form; the appeals mechanism involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36975/16]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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421. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff from her Department currently seconded to a firm in the private sector per annum from 2010 to date in 2016, in tabular form; the details of the company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36991/16]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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422. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff from her Department currently seconded from a firm in the private sector per annum from 2010 to date in 2016, in tabular form; the details of the company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37007/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 419 to 422, inclusive, together.

The Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs was established on 9^thJune 2016. The Department has responsibility for all the matters that previously came within the remit of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, which was itself established on 2^ndJune 2011, and in addition is also responsible for certain functions transferred from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and from the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

The information sought by the Deputy is provided in the table in respect of the period from 2011 onwards. During that period, there were no members of staff from my Department seconded to or from a firm in the private sector, nor was any staff member refused a secondment during this period, hence there were no appeals in this regard.

I am advised that the following number of staff from my Department have been seconded to other Departments or agencies in the civil service from 2011 to 2016.