Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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250. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment 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. [19547/22]

Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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263. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline all of the secondment arrangements within his Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19867/22]

Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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276. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons currently employed in his Department who have been seconded in from the public sector; the number of Departmental officials seconded where the monies 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [20060/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 250, 263, 276 and 307 together.

The information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the table below:

My Department does not provide individualidentifiable data such as staff names which are considered to be personal data.

Secondments in my Department are managed in line with the DPER Secondment Policy for the Civil Service 2021 and guideline’s and procedures governing secondments between civil and public service organisations and are reviewed on a regular basis. No secondment agreements are open ended or with the intention of the staff member not returning to their position within the Department. A secondment is a temporary arrangement which facilitates the release and movement of staff members for a specified period of time in a way which does not affect their employment status. Secondments provide staff members with opportunities to broaden their skills and continue their professional and personal development while retaining the right to return to their substantive or equivalent position at the end of the secondment. It also provides an opportunity for the Department to fill a temporary position, and the Department benefits from shared learning, good practice, new ideas and experience. My Department does not have any staff on secondment to or from the Private Sector.