The information requested is set out in the following table:
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2011
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2012
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2013
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To date in 2014 *
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Number of Staff Serving at 31 December (WTE)**
|
812
|
77 9
|
748
|
738
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Number of certified sick days
|
6,65 6
|
5,163
|
6,17 3
|
2,69 4
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Number of uncertified sick days
|
702
|
49 3
|
44 8
|
16 5
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No of staff with sick absences in excess of 20 working days** *
|
63
|
43
|
49
|
29
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* At 30 June 2014
** WTE indicates whole time equivalent staff
* * * Absence in excess of 20 working days considered long term sick absence
S taffing levels were reduced in my Department in May 2011 following the transfer of heritage functions out of my Department to the Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht and the transfer to my Department of the community functions of the previous Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.