Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 April 2023
689. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media 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. [17788/23]
View answerI am advised that the number of staff in my Department currently on sick leave is 16 and none of these staff have reported stress leave as the nature of their illness. My Department was established following a transfer of functions in September 2020 and the information provided in tabular form below sets out the number of staff from Q4 2020 to date who took stress or sick leave:
|
Year |
No of Staff who reported sick leave |
of which stress leave disclosed * |
|
Q4 2020 |
31 |
2 |
|
2021 |
104 |
5 |
|
2022 |
172 |
7 |
|
2023 to date |
84 |
3 |
* Please note that employees are not obliged to state the nature of illness on medical certificates or on the NSSO portal when self-reporting illness and absence.
