Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of civil servants in his Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if he will list the entities that they are working for in each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17147/22]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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There are no staff of my Department on secondment to the private sector. There are a number of staff on secondment to agencies under the remit of my Department, including the Competition and Consumer Protection Authority, IDA Ireland, and the Health and Safety Authority strengthening links between the Department and its agencies.

There are also a number of staff seconded to other Government Departments including the Department of Foreign Affairs thus increasing the Department’s global footprint and building and maintaining strong relationships across the globe. A small number of staff are seconded as national experts to the EU Commission.