The Secretary General - Ms. Niamh O'Donoghue
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Ms. Niamh O'Donoghue
Secretary General of Department of Social Protection,
Áras Mhic Dhiarmada,
Store Street, Dublin 1.
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Niamh O'Donoghue joined the Department of Agriculture as an Executive Officer in 1979. She moved to the Department of Health in 1986 and from there, moved to the Office of the Civil Service and Local Appointments Commissioners in 1995. In 2001 she joined the Office of the Revenue Commissioners as an Assistant Secretary where she headed up the Human Resources Division for a number of years before being assigned to the Border Midlands West Region in mid 2007.
Niamh came to this Department as Director General in December 2007 and was appointed Secretary General in July 2010.
A native of Dublin, she was educated in Holy Faith Convent, Clontarf. She has a primary degree from the IPA and holds an MA from the University of Keele and an MSc (Mgt) from Trinity College.