Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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401. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport 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. [20652/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Since January 2019 each secondment out of my Department has taken place with the intention that each staff member would be returning to the Department when the secondment has ended.

The duration of staff secondments to other Government Departments vary as they may be terminated at relatively short notice, or extended, by agreement with the other Department and the staff member concerned. In accordance with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform rules, during periods of secondment, staff maintain their terms and conditions of employment including their civil service grade and when the secondment period ends they return to the Department at that grade.