Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will allocate an additional full-time environment attaché and communication attaché to be posted at the Irish Permanent Representation to the EU. [13358/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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There are currently 4 staff from my Department who are are on secondment to the Department of Foreign Affairs and are serving in attaché posts with responsibility for a specific area in the Permanent Representation to the European Union. The attaché posts are as follows: Telecommunications; Energy; Environment and Climate.

A competition was recently conducted by my Department to appoint an additional attaché with responsibility for Cybersecurity, and the successful candidate will be taking up their post this year.

My Department continues to keep the staffing allocation and portfolio of its staff assigned to the Permanent Representation under review to ensure that Ireland's interests are adequately and appropriately represented.