Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 April 2023
1824. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [17780/23]
View answerThe information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of staff who took sick leave is in the following table. Due to the relatively low number of employees working in my Department and the consequential risk of identification the number of staff who identified stress as the reason for their absence has not been included in the interest of the protection of employee well-being. The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science was established in August 2020. During the period from August 2020 to December 2020 administrative arrangements for the Department’s staff were managed by the Department of Education.
|
Period |
Total number of staff who took at least one day of sick leave |
|
2021 |
61 |
|
2022 |
86 |
|
1/1/2023 – 31/3/2023 |
42 |
