Derek McDowell
Ceist:94 Mr. McDowell asked the Minister for Finance the total number of parents who have applied to job-share under the new scheme which allows for term-time working, mornings only and other job sharing options introduced in 1996; the number of women in this total figure; the number that are in Government Departments; the number in the wider public service; and the number that have been refused leave since the new arrangements were introduced. [4436/98]