Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29016/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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In accordance with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) rules, civil and public servants on secondment to other bodies maintain their terms and conditions of employment including salary during their period of secondment. Any additional payments made during that period are non-pensionable.

With regard to the individual in question, prior to her redeployment to my Department in 2012, she was employed by FAS as a clerical officer. She was seconded from FAS to another body for a number of years and was paid at her substantive grade of clerical officer plus an additional non-pensionable allowance, in accordance with DPER rules and the secondment agreement she entered into at that time. During periods of secondment, civil servants may initiate grievances as appropriate under the Civil Service Grievance Procedure in accordance with Department of Finance Circular 11/2001.

Finally, I refer to the Deputy's previous correspondence on behalf of the individual in question and the position remains as set out in my Department's response to him of February 2018. My Department will correspond directly with the individual in question.