Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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959. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from her Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the remuneration they are in receipt of from her Department or additional allocation to the agency or institution to which they are seconded arising from the secondment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29260/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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There is one former Secretary General of my Department on secondment to Maynooth University. This secondment follows two Government decisions in 2011 and 2021 which dealt with this matter. It is also in line with the Top Level Appointments Committee review of special retirement severance terms for Secretaries General.

The role involves work within the university in the area of enhancing public policy and undertaking work and projects in the wider public sector consistent with the national public service reform agenda. The secondee is on the payroll of Maynooth University and specific funding will be provided by the Exchequer, through the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, for this purpose.