Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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886. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons currently employed in her Department who have been seconded from the public sector; the number of departmental officials seconded where the moneys are recouped from the body the person is seconded to or where the Department pays for the person with no recoupment from the other organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20058/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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There are 19 staff members on secondment to the Department of Education from both the civil and public service. 

There are 15 employees seconded out from my department to other organisations. There is one employee of the Department, paid by the Department, who is seconded to Caranua (Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board), an aegis body of the Department of Education. This officer is employed as a temporary resource to facilitate the orderly winding down of Caranua. The salary costs for the other 14 staff are covered by the receiving organisations.

Please note that for administrative purposes, Department officials on secondment to outside organisations may continue to be paid through the Department’s payroll arrangements with the National Shared Services Office (NSSO) but the salary costs are then recouped to the Department of Education.