Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 April 2023
325. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport 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. [17789/23]
View answer16 officers of my Department are currently on sick leave, and one officer is currently on leave attributed to stress. I have set out the information requested by the Deputy in the table below. The data is based on information disclosed by Department staff as to the nature of their sick leave absence at the time it occurred.
|
Year |
No. of staff who attributed absence to sick leave |
No. of staff who attributed absence to stress |
Total no. of staff absent due to sick / stress leave |
|
2018 |
274 |
2 |
276 |
|
2019 |
316 |
4 |
320 |
|
2020 |
214 |
2 |
216 |
|
2021 |
190 |
5 |
195 |
|
2022 |
254 |
2 |
256 |
|
2023 (to date) |
109 |
4 |
113 |
