Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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208. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff within his 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 their position within the Department. [20639/22]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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There are no staff within my Department who have availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date, on the basis that that it is not their intention to return to their position within the Department.  All staff who have availed of such secondment opportunities have done so on a fixed term basis and, as such, are expected to return to the Department when their secondment is ended. 

There may be a small number of cases whereby for business needs an extension to the secondment is sought and similarly this would be timebound, with the officer expected to return to the Department.