Operation of Permanent Secretary's Office - update

From: Mike Brennan

Date: 24 March 2020

To: All Staff

Staffing

1. From Wednesday 25 March staff within Permanent Secretary’s Office (PSO) will be working from home with laptops to progress essential work. One staff member will be present each day in the office to lend support.

2. PSO will be delivering and responding to essential work and services therefore you are asked to refrain from emailing PSO unless correspondence is urgent. All correspondence must be triaged first through G3s before issuing to PSO. Emails will be prioritised and dealt with as quickly as is possible with the very restricted PSO staff and IT resources currently available.

Action: contact arrangements

3. Officials are asked to continue to use the generic emails accounts for Permanent Secretary’s Office, Assembly Business Unit and the Private Office and only telephone for urgent queries.

Generic Emails:

• Permanent.secretarysupport@economy-ni.gov.uk
• Abu@economy-ni.gov.uk
• Private.office@economy-ni.gov.uk

Telephone Calls:

For urgent Permanent Secretary queries, please contact Michelle Bell: Michelle.Bell@economy-ni.gov.uk or call 07979 804957

For urgent Assembly Business queries, please contact Sharon Smyth: Sharon.Smyth@economy-ni.gov.uk or call 07342 091859

For urgent Private Office queries, please contact Dan Cartland: Dan.Cartland@economy-ni.gov.uk or call 07834 393332

MIKE BRENNAN
Permanent Secretary