Government departments have approached corporate law and accountancy firms to temporarily lend some staff to the Civil Service for the duration of Ireland’s EU presidency in the second half of this year.
The Department of Enterprise is talking to several large corporate firms about “seconding” some employees into the public sector, to provide legal and technical expertise when the Republic takes over the influential EU role.
Ireland will assume the EU council presidency, which rotates between member states every six months, from July 1st until the end of the year. The presidency will involve Irish ministers, diplomats and officials steering policy debates at EU-level, to…