Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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1069. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff within her Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the intention of the staff member to return to his or her position within the Department. [20649/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Social Protection operates secondments on the basis that they are temporary assignments where the secondee returns to the Department at the end of the secondment.  Any extension of the secondment would be a matter for agreement between the Department and the receiving organisation.