Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for secondment to another public, private or semi-private entity, in tabular form, following the announcement that the salary of a person (details supplied) being seconded to Trinity College, Dublin will be paid by the Department of Health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19552/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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There are two members of staff who are seconded to another body and whose salaries are covered in full by my Department.

One member of staff at the grade of Assistant Principal is seconded to the Department of Foreign Affairs and serves in the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the European Union in Brussels. Their role is to represent my Department across a range of functions pertaining to my Ministerial responsibilities.

The second staff member is a Services Officer, and they are seconded to the secretariat of the Civil Service General Council Staff Panel.

Both of these staff are paid at the appropriate pay scale for their grade.  The Department carries the salary cost of these two staff members in line with the long-standing arrangements pertaining to their particular secondments.