Departmental Staff

Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Ceisteanna (246)

Catherine Murphy

Ceist:

246. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of staff in his Department on sick leave between March and September, by month, in 2019 and to date 2020; the pay arrangements that exist for staff on sick leave for an extended period of time; the number of sick days accounted for by his Department over the period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28944/20]

Amharc ar fhreagra

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Transport

I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is currently compiling this data and it will be forwarded to you as soon as it is available.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51

Further to Parliamentary Question 28944/20, please find hereunder my response:

1) Number of instances of sick leave from March 2019 to June 2020*

	2019	2020
January	n/a	110
February	n/a	77
March	79	49
April	57	17
May	68	20
June	55	22
July	66
August	57
September	76

Note: In the event an officer has more than one absence in the same calendar month, each absence will be counted separately in that calendar month. Where an absence occurs over two or more calendar months, this will be recorded in each calendar month of the absence period.

2) Total sick leave days lost from March 2019 to June 2020*

	2019	2020
January	n/a	548.86
February	n/a	410.42
March	343.07	311.16
April	276.88	207.86
May	308.07	207.71
June	345.92	217.03
July	344.12
August	399.74
September	366.63
Total	2384.43	943.76

*Latest information available.

3) Pay arrangements for extended sick leave is applied in accordance with Circular 05/ 2018 - Arrangements for Paid Sick Leave.