Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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191. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of public sector staff from her Department seconded to work in the public sector in other EU member states; the schemes available for such secondments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50982/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Currently there are no staff of my Department seconded to work in other EU Member States’ public sector.

My Department does however participate from time to time in seconding National Experts to the European Commission and other EU Institutions. The spirit of the Seconded National Experts (SNEs) programme is to enhance and foster the exchange of professional experience in, and knowledge of, European policies by temporarily assigning experts or trainees to work for an EU Institution. These secondments are governed by the Commission’s Decision of 12 November 2008 laying down rules on the secondment of national experts.